Name: Renaud et Armide (IV)
SKU: 3196
Price: 1250.00 GBP
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Renaud et Armide (IV)

Presented in a bespoke frame with a hand-applied 24ct gold water-gilded finish and black gesso sides.

Glazed with UV filtering anti-reflective glass

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Renaud et Armide (IV)

£1,250.00

Lithograph in colours on vergé de voiron paper
From Théâtre, 1957
Unsigned

Artwork dimensions: 22.5 x 15 cm
Framed dimensions: 42 x 34 cm

Presented in a bespoke frame with a hand-applied 24ct gold water-gilded finish and black gesso sides.

Glazed with UV filtering anti-reflective glass

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about Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was a French polymath whose prolific output spanned poetry, theatre, film, and the visual arts.

As a visual artist, Cocteau developed a distinctive, linear style characterised by elegant, fluid draughtsmanship and mythic, often androgynous figures. His line drawings, often minimal but charged with emotion, became iconic and he applied the same visual language to ceramics, stained glass, and large-scale decorative commissions, such as the Chapel of Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Cocteau’s visual work, though sometimes overshadowed by his films and writing, remains central to his legacy as a visionary and boundary-crossing artist.

Renaud et Armide (IV)

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