La Glace à 2 Faces [INSCRIBED WITH POEM BY JEAN COCTEAU].
Orlan, Pierre Mac; Michel Cot [illust.].
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Sm. oblong 4to. 168,[8]pp. Gray full linen with original illustrated dust jacket. Signed, handwritten poem in pencil by Jean Cocteau to photographer ("Hommage à Michel Cot") on blank page in front of book. Illustrated with 40 b/w tipped-in reproductions of portraits by Michel Cot of personalities such as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Maurice Chevalier, Colette, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Renoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Yves Montand, and many others. Each photograph accompanied by a self-portrait drawing of the artist depicted. Text by Pierre Mac Orlan. "Un essai de Pierre Mac Orlan de I'Académie Concourt. 40 portraits de Michel Cot. 40 autoportraits." Text in French. Slight sunning around edges of linen. Corners slightly bumped. Some creasing and rubbing to dj edges. Bottom corner bumped affecting pages throughout. Overall very good condition. Unique copy. Los Angeles Times article "How Jean Cocteau viewed life just before death," (dated November 10, 1963), laid-in. Slight offsetting from newspaper on free front endpaper.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation he grappled with mise en scéne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. He is best known for his novel Les enfants terribles (1929), and the films Les parents terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946), and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau's films, most of which he both wrote and directed, were particularly important in introducing Surrealism into French cinema and influenced to a certain degree the upcoming French New Wave genre.
Book ID: 23713
Price: $1,500.00