Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Versatile French poet, playwright, film director, and artist (1889–1963); among his best-known works are the novel Les Enfants Terrible and the film La Belle et la Bête. ALS in French, signed “I kiss you, Jean,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, Novermber 8, 1954. Letter to Mary Calloway. In full (translated): “Your very nice fairy (in the sense we give this word in our language) reminds me of the young boy who asked Cecil Beaton at the entrance of the hotel “Sir, is it true you are a fairy?” Here, I draw and I draw. I am completely exhausted, standing in front of a table with pastel pencils covering me from toe to head. Anyway, dear Mary, nothing has any explanation. It would be great if flying saucers would land safely among the wild bunch we form. Matisse has just extinguished his sun next to us. I will follow his burial on Monday morning. Colette has just left us, now Matisse. Who’s next?” At the top of the front of the letter, Cocteau has added a blue pencil sketch of a female’s face, a fluffy cloud, and several stars. In fine condition, with some scattered light creases and wrinkles.
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