COCTEAU Jean - Lot 112

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 112
COCTEAU Jean 2 autograph MANUSCRITS[for Reines de la France, 1949]; 1 page in-fol. each with blue ballpoint pen with some erasures and corrections Two unpublished primitive versions of the portraits of Joan of Arc and Diane de Poitiers for Reines de la France. [Reines de la France appeared in 1949 with illustrations by Christian Bérard (Imprimerie nationale, 1949), then in bookshops at Grasset in 1952, without the illustrations.] "What interests us, we are not interested in the purity of detail, but the purity of the block. Jeanne is pure because she can only do good and the one she did every second, she continues to do it. Politics escapes him. This is his chance. ...] the failure of Christ and that of Joanna ensures them true glory - one that is not subject to the vicissitudes of the world or to progress. "In court, we used to joke a lot about Diane's age. This fashion was propagated by Catherine. Catherine was the king's age, in her forties and aged by her owl-shaped headdresses. An owl who watches, at night, with her eyes open, and observes the old mistress whose sixty years seem thirty, sitting on the edge of the precipice that awaits women and where they can fall from one minute to the next, if they do not watch themselves. But Diane watches herself because we watch her..."...
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