Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) Autograph manuscript signed, September 15, 1962; 1page in-4 on Santo-Sospir letterhead. Presentation text for the traveling exhibition (Paris, New York, Philadelphia) by Francis Barone and Lucien Clergue. "Painting and photography have become sisters. And here are two brothers, Lucien Clergue and Fran Barone, whose eyes are in direct contact with the soul. The human machine and the machine itself collaborate, for both know only how to be the handmaid of the mysterious forces that inhabit us and that use man to translate the spectacle of the world into the language of poets, neither living nor dead. May the youth of America salute with the same heart as me one of these visual duets analogous to those in which Jazz music expresses itself". Lots 24 to 68 are sold by provisional auction with the option of reunion.