Young Boy

Young Boy is an original phototipo artwork realized by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca. , French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.

With the blue stamp of” Collezione Contessa Anna Labtitia Pecci” on the rear.

Excellent conditions.

Includes passepartout: 49 x 34 cm.

The artwork represents a portrait of a young man, through confident strokes .

Jean Cocteau , influential french artist and writer, is a major figure of Surrealism. The “magical-like sense of resemblance”, which has been pursued by the artist since his earliest drawings, must have developed from his observance of  Sem (Georges Gourçat)  and  Leonetto Cappiello ’s caricatures. Following their examples, Cocteau cultivates the synthetic intensity of line in order to build a firstly graphic and secondly plastic artwork, utterly aiming at representing the human figure, be it a portrait or an imaginary character. Slightly touching on avant-gardes,  Cubism , and metaphysics, yet without adhering to any of them, Jean Cocteau draws deep inspiration from two of the most important figures of the 20th-century artistic landscape:  Picasso  and  de Chirico .