Jean COCTEAU (Maisons-Laffite 1889 - Milly-la-Forêt... Lot n° 49

Portrait of Franz Thomassin, ca. 1939/40 Black ink on paper 26 x 19 cm in the view Signed lower right Jean*. Annotated in the center to the right Franz A formal notice from Madame Annie Guedras will be given to the buyer. "Precociously, he enters the world of literary salons. He dreams of being Balzac or Proust, but it is Cocteau who attracts him, then in his nascent glory. Following Cocteau, he runs to the Boeuf sur le toit, "goes down" to Montparnasse, and leads the frivolous, feverish existence of post-war Paris, when the demand for the new and the sensational was the same as the demand for anything else. All the stars attracted him in turn. After having prayed on his knees in front of a photo of Jean Cocteau, he converted to Catholicism under the auspices of Maritain. [Maurice Sachs, Le Sabbat (Coorêa)