Jean Cocteau – Autographed signed poem – The model of sleepers.
A magnificent study of verses – a first draft – for his poetry collection Opéra. Here, Cocteau lays the versified foundations of his poem Le modèle des dormeurs.
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A magnificent study of verses – a first draft – for his poetry collection Opéra. Here, Cocteau lays the versified foundations of his poem Le modèle des dormeurs.
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Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)
Signed autograph poem – The model of sleepers.
One octavo page in brown ink, signed in the left margin.
Slight loss in the lower corner and restoration on the reverse.
No place. [1926]
A magnificent study of verses – a first draft – for his poetry collection Opéra. Here, Cocteau lays the versified foundations of his poem Le modèle des dormeurs.
The manuscript, heavily crossed out, contains several corrections and references offering numerous variations with the text of the collection finally published by Stock in 1927.
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Sleep is a fountain
Petrifying – The Sleeper
Lying on her distant hand
It is made of colored stone
Blue blood, still blood
The blood of Agathe motionless
Fell around the arm
The most skillful revolt
….
That awkward look
Copy of the antique
This sleeper has nothing but dreams
The curtain of the unknown
That his heavy hand lifts
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In the upper right corner, Cocteau notes an address directly in his manuscript: "near the grocery store on rue de la grande chaumière…"