Jean Cocteau – Original signed drawing – The Terrible Parents.
A very beautiful drawing by Cocteau, done with colored grease pencils to illustrate his work Les Parents terribles.
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A very beautiful drawing by Cocteau, done with colored grease pencils to illustrate his work Les Parents terribles.
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Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)
Original signed drawing.
One quarto page mounted on heavy cardboard (20.50 x 27 cm)
Tiny spot in the lower left margin.
Slnd [probably 1948].
A very beautiful drawing by Cocteau – covering two-thirds of the page – made with colored grease pencils to illustrate his work Les Parents terribles.
In the lower third of the document, Cocteau adds these few lines in blue pen:
"Dear Mr. Georges, You asked me for a photograph – and I don't have a good one on hand. I thought this sketch for a cover might please you. Best wishes from Jean Cocteau."
The Terrible Parents is a play by Cocteau, first performed in November 1938 at the Théâtre des Ambassadeurs. Quickly banned, the play was revived at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens before being suspended again in October 1941 under pressure from the collaborationist press. To preserve the memory of his work, Cocteau made a film adaptation in 1948.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mrs. Annie Guédras.