Jean Cocteau signed and numbered brooch - L’Espiegle

To keep in mind

Writer, playwright, director, filmmaker, illustrator, painter, surrealist, modernist, homosexual, lover of beauty, fundamentally different, unique, French, leaving behind an immense void; that of his genius! Cocteau inhabited half a century of artistic creation, forever marking our imagination (who has not, in childhood, been deeply impressed by Beauty and the Beast?), posing questions that no one else wanted to tackle (Les Enfants Terribles) and bequeathing to us (with The Testament of Orpheus) a door to our dreams and his, like few artists have offered for their ultimate work...