Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963)

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Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963)
The Enigmatic Faun Cup in white clay, grey and golden yellow engobes, black, green and red enamels Signed " original edition of Jean Cocteau, Atelier Madeleine Jolly " and numbered 1/35 Diameter : 30 cm Bibliography : Annie Guédras, Jean Cocteau Céramiques catalog raisonné, Teillet et Dermit, Saint Ouen, 1989, model reproduced under n°202 p.132 JEAN COCTEAU Like his friend Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau succumbed to the temptation of ceramics. His first attempts go back to 1953, then following his meeting at the end of the 1950s with the ceramists Philippe Madeline and Marie Madeleine Jolly, he became their apprentice. Philippe Madeline said of Cocteau that he transformed his potteries into "poeteries" as he instilled a dreamy atmosphere in them. Cocteau admired the techniques and gestures of Etruscan pottery: "I have always dreamed of being an archaeologist, but as I am not, I try to invent what I would like to find in the earth. More than 300 pieces of Cocteau's pottery were created in the studio and were first exhibited in Villefranche, naturally and according to Cocteau's wishes. "Pottery saved my life! It saves me from using ink which has become too dangerous because everything we write is systematically deformed by those who read it...". The collection that we present to you testifies to this hard and passionate work and the love that Cocteau had nourished at the end of his life for the art of pottery.
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