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67 - Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
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Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) *Le Livre blanc* (The Child with Three Faces Under Three Stars), 1930 Hand-colored stencil lithograph on Arches vellum. Unsigned and unnumbered, as published; the inscription “Collège” appears within the composition, as printed; from copy no. 206, one of 380 on Arches vellum numbered from 37 to 416, out of a total print run of 450. Dimensions: + Sheet size: 28 × 22.5 cm / 11 × 8 7/8 in. Condition: Fresh print, blue not faded; full margins, right-hand tail intact; brown foxing in the upper left corner of the margin; unframed. References: Pia 1998, 813. Talvart & Place III, p. 184, 40. Carteret V, p. 51. Monod 2912. The opening plate of the album and the one most frequently reproduced: the child with three superimposed faces beneath three stars, which Pierre Chanel links to the “three decisive circumstances” of the narrator’s childhood (Jean Cocteau, *Poète graphique*, Chêne/Stock, 1975).
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