Artist: Jean Cocteau
Title: Villefranche sur Mer, Chapelle St. Pierre by
Medium: Original Lithographic Poster, 1957
Dimensions: 29.5 x 20.5 in, 74.9 x 52.07 cm

I am considering the immaculate chapel … a gracious dove, the warm and cooing breast of its curves… I would not dare paint a single line on its feathers, so white and so smooth. Maybe later I will be less timid. The dove will tame me. —Jean Cocteau


Cocteau was a playwright, a novelist, artist, poet, designer, and filmmaker. He truly was a renaissance man living in Paris through the city’s great artistic heyday. During the years of the Great War, Cocteau began to associate himself with artists across differing spheres, including the Russian ballet director Diaghilev, composers Stravinksy and Satie, and Picasso; however, it was not until his later life that Cocteau added art to his creative endeavors and experimented with pastels, prints, and posters. He eventually took up easel painting in 1950.

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