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COCTEAU Jean (1889 - 1963)
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COCTEAU Jean (1889 - 1963)
L.A.S. "Jean" with DRAWING, Saint-Cloud [1929], to a friend| 1 page in-4 (27 x 21 cm).
Letter illustrated with a large pen-and-ink drawing during his opium detoxification.
The large drawing, representing a man with amputated legs and arms, supported by sticks, occupies the whole page, on which he wrote his letter in superposition. Cocteau was then undergoing detoxification at the Saint-Cloud clinic.
"Alas, it is not so simple (I have given up "explanations", I am talking about doctors). I live in the torture chamber - a sort of blue moire safe with a grate in the window so that you don't throw yourself out into the street. You can't imagine the hope your green writing gives me. My nurse is a good Breton woman who believes that the
Blessed Virgin deceived God with Joseph because he (God) had gone to war against the Jews (sic). You realize that. But I know that you know about torments and that I have nothing to teach you. I'd like snow, cribs and I'm looking at a crime villa - like a picture of the "Detective". It seems that my real anguish starts tomorrow. Pray for me"...
L.A.S. "Jean" with DRAWING, Saint-Cloud [1929], to a friend| 1 page in-4 (27 x 21 cm).
Letter illustrated with a large pen-and-ink drawing during his opium detoxification.
The large drawing, representing a man with amputated legs and arms, supported by sticks, occupies the whole page, on which he wrote his letter in superposition. Cocteau was then undergoing detoxification at the Saint-Cloud clinic.
"Alas, it is not so simple (I have given up "explanations", I am talking about doctors). I live in the torture chamber - a sort of blue moire safe with a grate in the window so that you don't throw yourself out into the street. You can't imagine the hope your green writing gives me. My nurse is a good Breton woman who believes that the
Blessed Virgin deceived God with Joseph because he (God) had gone to war against the Jews (sic). You realize that. But I know that you know about torments and that I have nothing to teach you. I'd like snow, cribs and I'm looking at a crime villa - like a picture of the "Detective". It seems that my real anguish starts tomorrow. Pray for me"...