Jean COCTEAU : White Book (erotic interior scene), 1930 (Lithograph with hand-applied colour)

By COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963)

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
White Book (erotic interior scene), 1930

Lithograph with hand-applied colour (pochoir) on vélin d’Arches.

Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; from copy no. 206, one of 380 on vélin d’Arches numbered 37 to 416, from a total edition of 450.

Dimensions :
+ Size of the sheet : 28 × 22,5 cm / 11 × 8 7/8 in.

Condition : Fresh impression; composition extending close to the sheet edges; full margins; light handling marks at the right edge; unframed.

References : Pia 1998, 813. Talvart & Place III, p. 184, 40. Carteret V, p. 51. Monod 2912.

The most densely worked and most explicit plate of the suite, and among the most sought after. Published anonymously by Éditions du Signe, Paris; printed by Ducros et Colas, 10 May 1930.

Price : 500,00 € ( 576.00 USD )