Jean Cocteau selling Drawing Nude Male Gay French Portrait Sailor Querelle Navy Smoking Cigarette

French Surrealist Portrait Drawing
after Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)


Sailor Smoking / Marin

Fine twentieth century french modernist mythological style drawing in pencil after Jean Cocteau of a french sailor figure smoking. The artist has such a beautiful feeling and insight into the male form and sensual desire. Bought in France ten years ago, part of a portfolio lot.

Sold unframed, sheet measurements 29.5 x 21 cm, (12 x 8) thick art paper with a stamp but no watermark. Would fit a standard A4 matt/mount window. Condition as pictured, some spotting or toning depending on drawing, refer to images, generally great condition. No provenance, sold selling as-is.

About:
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers"