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Le Testament D'Orphée.
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First edition. A beautiful silver gelatin photograph of Cocteau on the set of Le Testament D'Orphée. "In his last film, Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. With an eclectic cast that includes Pablo Picasso, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Marais and Yul Brynner, Testament of Orpheus brings to full circle the journey that Cocteau began in The Blood of a Poet, an exploration of the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations." (Norton Simon Museum). A high quality photograph, in perfect condition, is held under a passe partout. The auction description is pasted onto the rear of the passe partout. The photograph is 20cm X 25cm. the passe partout is 30cm x 40cm. With this photograph is an ink sketch which we believe was drawn by Cocteau at the time of the filming. The page shows a fractured, cubist influenced profile face with a single staring eye. This is drawn with the quick, single line pen style Cocteau used throughout his life for his graphic work. Below it, a reclining winged female figure with a human torso/head and a striped, bird or sphinx like lower body with the inscription "3 Sphinx." To the verso of this sheet is a faint pencil sketch echoing the same reclining sphinx figure, plus a hand written note: "Cocteau / croquis étude / un spectacle / [Mme?] Leroux." Translated: "Cocteau, sketch-study, 'a spectacle,' [name] Leroux." "Un spectacle" is a phrase used within the Sphinx's own dialogue in La Machine infernale ("je vais te donner un spectacle"). This sketch, very much in the style of Cocteau, was accompanying the photograph in a sale from a reputable Parisian auction house. We are not experts in Cocteau's sketches, so cannot authenticate this with certainty. The subject matter, the loose ink line, and the sphinx/mythological theme are all very much in Cocteau's visual vocabulary. In addition, Cocteau frequently made theatrical/production sketches (costume ideas, staging notes, figure studies) alongside his film and stage work, and this sphinx figure reads like a working sketch for the film.
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