BIB_ID
444296
Accession number
MA 23828
Creator
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Display Date
Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, France, 1961 October 3.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.3 x 21.4 cm
Notes
Written from Villa Santo Sospir, the home of Francine Weisweiller, Cocteau's friend and patron.
Cocteau has drawn a hand holding a letter on the letter itself.
Cocteau has drawn a hand holding a letter on the letter itself.
Provenance
Pierre Berès; Christie's (Paris), Pierre Berès à livre ouvert, 13 December 2012, Lot 160; Sotheby's (Paris), Livres et manuscrits, 8 December 2021, Lot 87.
Summary
Responding to a request from René Etiemble; saying that his best drawings of hands appeared in a book of Sacha Guitry's plays, L'Illusionniste, and that others (not as good) appeared in Stock's album of drawings; punning on the word "hand".
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