Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) - Lot 45

Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) 3 L.A.S., Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat August-September 1958; 1page in-8 each on Santo-Sospir letterhead. August 3. "Last night a very talented guy told the whole story of your photographs on the radio - which never happens. So you'd be wrong to complain. Your exhibition is a big success"... August 5, after a brief trip to Venice. "I'm not quite back yet, and there's a part of me that's still hanging around in the gondola. The film (if it shoots) will be next April or May, and I'll take you on as my photographer if you're free. I've got a thousand health and work problems"... September 30th. Gérard Worms "will do what you want and what I want. Picasso advises him to make a duet between you and the Antibes photographer [...] a sort of visual dialogue"... 5 letters from Lucien CLERGUE to Cocteau (double carbon), June-September 1958. CCC p. 53-56. Lots 24 to 68 are sold by provisional auction with the option of reunion.