#cocteau

[semioticapocalypse]

Philippe Halsman. Cocteau's Dream. 1949

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[gayartists]

Édouard Dermit with Jean Cocteau’s Judith et Holopherne tapestry (1948), Herbert List

[sanjaangie]

Portraits de Cocteau par Jacques-Emile Blanche

[museoprivado]

❤️💛💜Jacques Émile Blanche (French 1861-1942), Jean Cocteau 1913. Oil on canvas, 94.1 x 83 cm.

[hayaomiyazaki]

Incredibly rare first release poster for La Belle et la Bête (1946) dir. Jean Cocteau, 24 x 32.

[bruzum]

[rwpohl]

princ a večernice, václav vorlíček 1979 [german dubbed]

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kráska a zvíře, antonín moskalyk 1971

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Jean Cocteau (French, 1889-1963)

1954

Carnaval de Nice

Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition of 57/100

Lithograph

64.77 cm. x 50 cm. (25.5 x 19.69 in.)

Jean Cocteau was a French painter, poet, designer, printmaker, playwright and filmmaker. He is one of the most important figures of French Surrealism, although he always denied being in any way connected to the movement.

Cocteau was born to a socially prominent Parisian family. His father, George Cocteau, was an amateur painter who committed suicide when Jean was only a child. Jean became famous in Bohemian circles as "The Frivolous Prince." In 1912, he collaborated with the Ballets Russes. After World War I, Cocteau met the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and the artist Pablo Picasso. In 1917, thanks to Sergei Diaghilev, a Russian impresario, Cocteau wrote a scenario for the ballet Parade — the set of this important ballet was realized by Pablo Picasso and the music was composed by Erik Satie. In the late 1920s, Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex. In 1918, he met the French poet Raymond Radiguet. They worked and went on many journeys together, and Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic group.

Cocteau is well-known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929) and the films The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus. During World War II, he created sets for the Théâtre de la Mode. In 1955, he was elected to the Académie Française and the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. He was commander of the Legion of Honour, a member of the Academié Mallarmé, the Academy of Arts (Berlin) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.