Jean COCTEAU : White Book (the sailor Pas de chance at the window), 1930 (Lithograph with hand-applied colour)

By COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963)

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
White Book (the sailor « Pas de chance » at the window), 1930

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

Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; inscribed PAS DE CHANCE within the composition, as printed; 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, blue unfaded; full margins, deckle edge at right; no foxing observed; unframed.

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

The plate depicts Pas-de-Chance, the sailor named in the text — one of the few illustrations in the album tied directly to the narrative, and the most sought after of the suite.

Price : 700,00 € ( 807.00 USD )