Jean Cocteau – Original drawing – “The Plague Oedipus Rex”
A magnificent study with cubist overtones depicting the plague, stoic, applying its control and stopping the vital impulse of Oedipus Rex.
2.800€
A magnificent study with cubist overtones depicting the plague, stoic, applying its control and stopping the vital impulse of Oedipus Rex.
2.800€
Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)
Original drawing – The Plague Oedipus Rex.
A page in-4° (26 x 20 cm) on the back of a Santo Sospir letterhead.
Pencil on paper titled "The Plague Oedipus Rex" in the margin by Cocteau.
A magnificent study with cubist overtones depicting the plague, stoic, applying its control and stopping the vital impulse of Oedipus Rex.
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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.