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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
Lot 435 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION, SOLD TO BENEFIT A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

La machine infernale

Closed3 March 2023

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GBP 5,292

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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
La machine infernale
signed 'Jean Cocteau' (upper center) and inscribed 'La machine infernale' (lower left); marked 'Edition originale de/Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/exemplaire d'auteur' (underneath)
white earthenware plate with black engobe and coloured glaze
diameter: 12 3/8 in. (31.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1957 and executed in a numbered edition of 20; this is an exemplaire d'auteur from outside of the standard edition

Anonymous sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 25 November 2009, lot 69.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.