JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) & ATELIER MADELINE-JOLLY - PHIL - Lot 40

JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) & ATELIER MADELINE-JOLLY - PHILIPPE MADELINE (1914-2002) & MARIE-MADELEINE JOLLY (1914-1992) Enfance, the model created in [1961], proof numbered 47/50 Bowl with ears on pedestal. Red clay proof; oxide pencils, black, ochre, flesh and pink; enamels, black, yellow, pink and bright white. Signed Jean COCTEAU with a star on the base of the pedestal, marked Édition originale de Jean COCTEAU - Atelier MADELINE-JOLLY - 47/50 inside the pedestal. Height: 11cm - Length: 20cm Exhibition: N6-N7 - Les Nationales de la Céramique - Écomusée de la Bresse bourguignonne, Château de Pierre-de-Bresse, from April 4 to December 20, 2015. Our work exhibited at this event. Bibliography: Annie Guédras - Jean Cocteau céramiques, catalog raisonné - Éditions Teillet-Dermit, Paris, 1989.the model of our work referenced and reproduced under number 281 on page 179. JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) & ATELIER MADELINE-JOLLY - PHILIPPE MADELINE (1914-2002) & MARIE-MADELEINE JOLLY (1914-1992) Jean Cocteau, a jack-of-all-trades, Dada, then in the surrealist vein, is celebrated for his poetry; nevertheless, his written work is inseparable from his graphic work and ceramics. His boundless imagination gave rise to drawings, theater sets, lithographs and etchings, as well as widely recognized and recognizable works in clay. In 1957, his decisive meeting with Marie-Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline marked the start of a flourishing collaboration. It was in their Villefranche-sur-Mer studio that the poet created over 300 ceramics and jewelry pieces, imagining "poem-objects" until his death in 1963.