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Jean Cocteau (1889 Maisons-Laffitte near Paris - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt near Paris) Sheet for the publisher Kurt Desch on his 60th birthday Imaginative, cross-shaped composition with eye and butterfly-like motifs, fourfold number "60" and scattered French text "2 juin 1966 (/) à Kurt Desch (/) a lèditeur e l'ami (/) avec mon amité fidele pour l'allemagne (/) et mon affectueuse reconnaissance (/) Jean Cocteau". Mixed media/paper, mounted on canvas. Various creases, tears and stains distributed across the sheet and to the margins. Sheet 64.8 cm x 49.8 cm. Frame. The work was also published as a color reproduction in a book on the occasion of Desch's 60th birthday: "Ein Almanach der Autoren des Verlages Kurt Desch 1963" (Vienna, Munich and Basel: Verlag K. Desch 1963). In addition to Cocteau, the authors included Kasimir Edschmid, Jean Anouilh, Günther Weisenborn, Golo Mann, Oskar Maria Graf, Gustav Gründgens and Eugene Iionescu. Mixed media on paper, laid down on canvas. Signed. Several flaws (creases, tears and stains to the margins and scattered over the sheet).
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Jean Cocteau (1889 Maisons-Laffitte near Paris - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt near Paris) Sheet for the publisher Kurt Desch on his 60th birthday Imaginative, cross-shaped composition with eye and butterfly-like motifs, fourfold number "60" and scattered French text "2 juin 1966 (/) à Kurt Desch (/) a lèditeur e l'ami (/) avec mon amité fidele pour l'allemagne (/) et mon affectueuse reconnaissance (/) Jean Cocteau". Mixed media/paper, mounted on canvas. Various creases, tears and stains distributed across the sheet and to the margins. Sheet 64.8 cm x 49.8 cm. Frame. The work was also published as a color reproduction in a book on the occasion of Desch's 60th birthday: "Ein Almanach der Autoren des Verlages Kurt Desch 1963" (Vienna, Munich and Basel: Verlag K. Desch 1963). In addition to Cocteau, the authors included Kasimir Edschmid, Jean Anouilh, Günther Weisenborn, Golo Mann, Oskar Maria Graf, Gustav Gründgens and Eugene Iionescu. Mixed media on paper, laid down on canvas. Signed. Several flaws (creases, tears and stains to the margins and scattered over the sheet).
