Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) - Lot 32

Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) Autograph poem signed, to Clergue for his nudes, Villefranche November 1956; 1page in-4. Beautiful poem of 10 lines, in brown ink, with erasures and corrections, evoking Lucien Clergue's photographs of nudes in the waves. It was published untitled as an exergue to Paul Éluard's Corps mémorable, illustrated with 12 photographs by Lucien Clergue (P. Seghers, 1957); the poem was removed from reprints at Dominique Éluard's request. "Du phoque renversé sous l'écume des bagues Perles et diamants (ils nous viennent des vagues)... Œuvres poétiques complètes (Pléiade), p. 1248. Lots 24 to 68 are sold at provisional with possibility of reunion