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Jean Cocteau pendant - Visage (gold finish)

REF : BI-COCT-19

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Jean Cocteau signed jewel (see pictures of details)
Dimensions : 2.3 x 7 cm
Weight : 12 gr
Chain : 45 cm
© Editions Madeline

This jewel is delivered in its jewellery pouch in velvet, signed Jean Cocteau and presented in a black and golden box.


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Jean Cocteau

Additional cultural and artistic information about the artist

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Main works

The Blue God (1912), Parade (1917), The Holy Terrors (1929), Beauty and the Beast (1946, film), The Testament of Orpheus (1960, film)

Artistic movements

Jean Cocteau is a multifaceted artist belonging to surrealism and dadaism, although he never fully integrated into a single movement. His work also influenced the movements of cubism and artistic avant-garde.

Inspiration, influence

His influences include major artists such as Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Serge de Diaghilev, and Guillaume Apollinaire. He was also influenced by his collaborations with figures from the Russian ballet and theater, such as Vaslav Nijinsky.

His contemporaries

Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Marcel Proust, Raymond Radiguet.

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 imprinting our imagination (who has not, in their childhood, been deeply impressed by Beauty and the Beast?), asking questions that no one else wanted to tackle (Les enfants terribles) and bequeathing us (with Testament of Orpheus) a door to our dreams and his, like few artists have offered for their ultimate work....