COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963) - Lot 26

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COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963) - Lot 26
COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963) Drawings (Librairie Stock, 1923); in-4, half black morocco, smooth spine, black morocco title on the upper cover, cover and spine preserved. One of 50 copies on Hollande with three original drawings. This copy on Hollande (n° 32) was the personal copy of COCTEAU and then of the president Louis BARTHOU. The copies on Hollande are enriched with an original drawing, here mounted at the head of the volume and captioned on the back: "The poet and his muse" (27 x 21 cm on strong paper), it is the drawing reproduced on page 144 of the book. On the title page, Cocteau noted his ownership mark: "Exemplaire de L'oiseleur" and drew under the title, in black ink, a composition of two faces and a heart. Cocteau divested himself of this copy to offer it to Louis Barthou; he first noted on the cover: "The outside does not look like much - but it is for having traveled with Strawinsky - which gives titles of nobility to the inside" And he wrote this long dispatch which covers the false title page: "to Louis Barthou - Monsieur Il ne reste que cet exemplaire de "luxe". Forgive the fact that it is so unworthy of your library - but it expresses a deep gratitude to you - for I have finally seen my mother break with solitude for your house and come back all happy with the welcome she found there. Jean Cocteau December 1924. P.S. Will you allow me one day to see Rimbaud's autographs? And he adds: "I wanted to send you all my books but I can't find any more suitable copies. I have to look for them first. I gave the order to the N.R.F. that a copy on blue paper should be printed from Poésie which is going to appear. Allow me to reserve it for you. JC ". Twenty years later, on a page of guard, Cocteau made with blue ink a great drawing of face with the radiant hair, with this sending: " to Mrs. Calou in memory of Jean Cocteau 1944 ".
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