Description
COCTEAU (Jean) Superb praise addressed to Marie Bell on 1 page (21x27) of 20 lines. Framed under glass. "A ghost in the sun Marie Bell resembles these marvelous parasols which receive sun and give shade. But to this shadow that makes her so pale as a night object is added a light coming from within. Her wild, haughty, disdainful, deep and light soul escapes from her alabaster person, surrounds her with a pale halo. So that she is made of light and shade and that the same enigmatic mixture impregnates the velvet of her voice. Can one dream of a more feminine Hermione, a more feverish Phèdre, a more solitary Célimène, a Muse more similar to the curtains of tulle and moonlight? Either that she impregnates with her phosphorescence the room of the poet in black, or that she decides, after a long hesitation to leave Alceste, before his train which still hesitates behind her, one thinks of the verse of Baudelaire. Hear, my sister, hear the soft night which walks... Jean Cocteau 1942 (with his star) "
30
COCTEAU (Jean) Superb praise addressed to Marie Bell on 1 page (21x27) of 20 lines. Framed under glass. "A ghost in the sun Marie Bell resembles these marvelous parasols which receive sun and give shade. But to this shadow that makes her so pale as a night object is added a light coming from within. Her wild, haughty, disdainful, deep and light soul escapes from her alabaster person, surrounds her with a pale halo. So that she is made of light and shade and that the same enigmatic mixture impregnates the velvet of her voice. Can one dream of a more feminine Hermione, a more feverish Phèdre, a more solitary Célimène, a Muse more similar to the curtains of tulle and moonlight? Either that she impregnates with her phosphorescence the room of the poet in black, or that she decides, after a long hesitation to leave Alceste, before his train which still hesitates behind her, one thinks of the verse of Baudelaire. Hear, my sister, hear the soft night which walks... Jean Cocteau 1942 (with his star) "
