Autograph Letter by Cocteau

This is an  Autograph Letter Signed  and  dated  by the French writer  Jean Cocteau  (1889-1963) to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. 

Villefranche sur mer, May 23rd, 1935.   In French. One page, single-sided. In 8º. On ivory-colored and tissue paper.

In very good conditions, except for minor aging signs. Letter with usual folds, a little stain on the left lower margin.  Original envelope included, with the letterhead " Welcome Hotel Villefranche sur mer (Cóte d'Azur)".

greeting autograph letter , by a poet searching his mentor and patron of art, the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt :  "Chère amie, que vous étes aimable, Hélas!".  Cocteau wrotes about his   "vague du naufrage poétique" , referring to his cruise trip around the Mediterranean sea with Marcel Khill, his new secretary.  In the same year of this letter Cocteau will publish the  Portraits-Souvenirs. 

With the unmistakable touch of a literary man of the established reputation and the creativity without rest, Jean Cocteau, it is a real pleasure to read and collect this autograph written according to the Surrealist technique of  caligram : there are several reading enses!

Signed  "Jean"  with the characteristic final star, on the left lower margin of the letter.

Absolutely to collect for the connaisseurs of jean Cocteau and for lovers of French Literature!

Discover More About The Biography Of Jean Cocteau, Here!

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This is an  Autograph Letter Signed and dated  by the French writer  Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. 

Villefranche sur mer, May 23rd, 1935. 

In French. One page, single-sided. In 8º. On ivory-colored and tissue paper.

In very good conditions, except for minor aging signs. Letter with usual folds, a little stain on the left lower margin.  Original envelope included, with the letterhead " Welcome Hotel Villefranche sur mer (Cóte d'Azur)".

A greeting autograph letter , by a poet searching his mentor and patron of art, the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt :  "Chère amie, que vous étes aimable, Hélas!". Cocteau wrotes about his  "vague du naufrage poétique" , referring to his cruise trip around the Mediterranean sea with Marcel Khill, his new secretary.  In the same year of this letter Cocteau will publish the Portraits-Souvenirs. 

With the unmistakable touch of a literary man of the established reputation and the creativity without rest, Jean Cocteau, it is a real pleasure to read and collect this autograph written according to the Surrealist technique of caligram : there are several reading enses!

  Signed "Jean" with the characteristic final star, on the left lower margin of the letter.

The Background:

In 1935, the same year of this letter, Cocteau took a cruise in the Mediterranean with Marcel Khill, his new secretary, and published the Portraits-Souvenirs. The following year he leaves Paris for a tour that touches Rome, Athens, Cairo, Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong (where he meets Charlie Chaplin on a boat), Tokyo, Honolulu, San Francisco, Hollywood and New York.

In 1935, the Cometa Gallery was founded in Rome 1935, until 1938, by the Italian poet Libero de Libero and the Countess Pecci-Blunt. An internationl world in Rome, in which artists and intellectuals like Afro, Mirko, Cagli Mafai, Guttuso and Capogrossi, Severini, Martini, Janni, Melli, Ziveri, Pirandello, Savinio  graviteted. At the sime time the Countess, best-known as "Mimì" organised literary presentations by writers like Cecchi, Moravia, Montale, lectures by Valéry and Mauriac; music night by Stravinskij, Petrassi, Milhaud, Honegger, Poulenc, Auric. During the summer, cosmopolitan worldliness in the grand villa of Marlia.

Absolutely to collect for the connaisseurs of jean Cocteau and for lovers of French Literature!

Discover More About The Biography Of Jean Cocteau, Here!

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SKU
M-112081
Artist
Jean Cocteau
Period
1930s
Conditions
Good (minor cosmetic wear)
Writer/Sender
Jean Cocteau
Year
1935
Year
1935
Format
In-8°
Conditions
Excellent
Dimensions (cm)
27 x 0.1 x 21