Sasha Masour Barbette in Jean Cocteau's Le Sang d'un poète, 1930. Vintage silver print. Photographer's credit in lower right margin and "Photo A. M. Masour" stamp on verso. Image: 16.2 x 21.8 cm Sheet: 18.5 x 24 cm An American transvestite trapeze artist and celebrated figure of the Parisian avant-garde, Barbette was the subject of an essay by Cocteau published in 1926 in the Nouvelle Revue Française, before appearing in Le Sang d'un poète. Sasha Masour's photograph shows him reclining on a sofa with an optical mechanism in the background, reminiscent of a Duchampian rotorelief - the "Danger de mort" sign on the cushion alone condenses the film's poetics.