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littérature.
COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963)
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. 1923
Marie Laurencin seen by Cocteau and by herself.
This manuscript, probably unpublished, is presented as a booklet specially conceived by the two artists for Marie Laurencin, with handwritten pages by Cocteau and a self-portrait of Marie Laurencin. It is covered with a beautiful illustrated cover on which Cocteau has calligraphed: "Marie Laurencin par Jean Cocteau" accompanied by a red heart. On the extreme left, a black ribbon slipped into the cover with gold printing bearing "Paris" and two sea anchors. Along the ribbon is the date of March 1922 in Cocteau's hand. Contents: a white sheet - a sheet on which has been pasted the reproduction of the portrait of Cocteau by Marie Laurencin dated 1921 - the self-portrait of Marie Laurencin with the pink scarf, dated 1923, pencil on paper signed and dated lower right. (285 x 215 mm) and 6 ff. 1/2 in-4 (282 x 212 mm) titled "Marie Laurencin".
Enclosure: autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau dated Chantilly, February 1923: "[...] Figurez vous que Mr. Doucet commandez à L. Aragon des préfaces ordurières et les fait relier avec nos manusrits qu'il achète".
PROVENANCE Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 21, 1996, n° 241 -- Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris.
LITERATURE Self-portrait of Marie Laurencin reproduced in Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, catalog raisonné de l'oeuvre, volume II, " Peintures, Céramiques, oeuvres sur papier ", Musée Marie Laurencin, Japon, 1999, n° pp0356, reproduced on page 359 . Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 21, 1996.
Magnificent homage that Cocteau pays here to Marie Laurencin: He begins by describing her, then speaks of the delicacy of her painting, "[...] A painting by Marie Laurencin looks, listens, like the deer [...]". Cocteau recalls her relationship with poets: "For Marie Laurencin loves poets. She only loves poets. And I, who knew her well after Salmon, Apollinaire, Fleuret, Moréas, had the surprise of a man from the North who would see a rose, in the flesh, after hearing about her in Ronsard [...]". He calls her a poet herself, quotes verses she wrote, and ends: "Now I will tell how Marie Laurencin painted my portrait. First of all, we don't see her painting... Marie Laurencin sings. She stands up. She shows me a gymnastic exercise. She turns in the room. She looks for gasoline. She does not find her tubes... one day she signs. The nest is made. The turn is played. One is in the presence of a strong work, serious, of a balance and a disconcerting poetry". Marie Laurencin made many portraits of her friend, including an oval painting in 1921, which appeared in the Cocteau exhibition at the Pompidou Center in 2003 (oil on canvas). It is this portrait that is reproduced here and pasted in medallion and of which Cocteau speaks in this manuscript. Enclosure: autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau dated Chantilly, February 1923: "[...] Figurez vous que Mr Doucet commandez à L. Aragon des préfaces ordurières et les fait relier avec nos manusrits qu'il achète".et un autoportrait de Marie Laurencin. - CELINE Louis Ferdinand (1894-1961). L.A.S. "LFC", s.l.n.d., addressed to a friend. 2 pages in-folio (folds). He lives "unhooked from everything" and defends himself from slanders "which in the end are taken for granted and lead you to the telescope! It is the air of slander. [...] The kind of malice is the Niagara, it drags everything down! [...] If I am assassinated as Father François, the blow will not be entirely dull. There will still be this little piece of writing to justify it that will go around the world. Now I have the right title: Maudits pendeurs, pendants menteurs [...] Oh but of course! Cabotage! These offenses of ticklish old whores on their private life! You talk! When I am advertising if they ravine! That I stink! It is the sauve qui peut! It's human."
COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963)
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. 1923
Marie Laurencin seen by Cocteau and by herself.
This manuscript, probably unpublished, is presented as a booklet specially conceived by the two artists for Marie Laurencin, with handwritten pages by Cocteau and a self-portrait of Marie Laurencin. It is covered with a beautiful illustrated cover on which Cocteau has calligraphed: "Marie Laurencin par Jean Cocteau" accompanied by a red heart. On the extreme left, a black ribbon slipped into the cover with gold printing bearing "Paris" and two sea anchors. Along the ribbon is the date of March 1922 in Cocteau's hand. Contents: a white sheet - a sheet on which has been pasted the reproduction of the portrait of Cocteau by Marie Laurencin dated 1921 - the self-portrait of Marie Laurencin with the pink scarf, dated 1923, pencil on paper signed and dated lower right. (285 x 215 mm) and 6 ff. 1/2 in-4 (282 x 212 mm) titled "Marie Laurencin".
Enclosure: autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau dated Chantilly, February 1923: "[...] Figurez vous que Mr. Doucet commandez à L. Aragon des préfaces ordurières et les fait relier avec nos manusrits qu'il achète".
PROVENANCE Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 21, 1996, n° 241 -- Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris.
LITERATURE Self-portrait of Marie Laurencin reproduced in Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, catalog raisonné de l'oeuvre, volume II, " Peintures, Céramiques, oeuvres sur papier ", Musée Marie Laurencin, Japon, 1999, n° pp0356, reproduced on page 359 . Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 21, 1996.
Magnificent homage that Cocteau pays here to Marie Laurencin: He begins by describing her, then speaks of the delicacy of her painting, "[...] A painting by Marie Laurencin looks, listens, like the deer [...]". Cocteau recalls her relationship with poets: "For Marie Laurencin loves poets. She only loves poets. And I, who knew her well after Salmon, Apollinaire, Fleuret, Moréas, had the surprise of a man from the North who would see a rose, in the flesh, after hearing about her in Ronsard [...]". He calls her a poet herself, quotes verses she wrote, and ends: "Now I will tell how Marie Laurencin painted my portrait. First of all, we don't see her painting... Marie Laurencin sings. She stands up. She shows me a gymnastic exercise. She turns in the room. She looks for gasoline. She does not find her tubes... one day she signs. The nest is made. The turn is played. One is in the presence of a strong work, serious, of a balance and a disconcerting poetry". Marie Laurencin made many portraits of her friend, including an oval painting in 1921, which appeared in the Cocteau exhibition at the Pompidou Center in 2003 (oil on canvas). It is this portrait that is reproduced here and pasted in medallion and of which Cocteau speaks in this manuscript. Enclosure: autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau dated Chantilly, February 1923: "[...] Figurez vous que Mr Doucet commandez à L. Aragon des préfaces ordurières et les fait relier avec nos manusrits qu'il achète".et un autoportrait de Marie Laurencin. - CELINE Louis Ferdinand (1894-1961). L.A.S. "LFC", s.l.n.d., addressed to a friend. 2 pages in-folio (folds). He lives "unhooked from everything" and defends himself from slanders "which in the end are taken for granted and lead you to the telescope! It is the air of slander. [...] The kind of malice is the Niagara, it drags everything down! [...] If I am assassinated as Father François, the blow will not be entirely dull. There will still be this little piece of writing to justify it that will go around the world. Now I have the right title: Maudits pendeurs, pendants menteurs [...] Oh but of course! Cabotage! These offenses of ticklish old whores on their private life! You talk! When I am advertising if they ravine! That I stink! It is the sauve qui peut! It's human."