Jean Cocteau – Original signed drawing – The Hanging of Jocasta.

Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)

Original signed drawing – Jocasta hanged.

A page in-4° (26.5 x 20 cm) on the back of a Santo Sospir letterhead.

Irregular lower edge.

Pencil on paper titled in the margin "Jocasta hanged" and signed by Cocteau.

A beautiful study by Cocteau depicting the mythological scene of Jocasta's hanging.

Oedipus' mother, Jocasta, had married him without knowing the ties that bound them and took her own life when she learned of it.

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Provenance: Jean-Jacques Kihm. Jean-Jacques Kihm (1923-1970) met Cocteau in 1953 after sending him his poems. A collaboration, then a ten-year friendship, developed. Kihm, also a playwright, published Cocteau's works as well as an essay, and programmed his plays at the Troyes Festival and on the radio.