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Roger De La Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Lot 1124 PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN C. WHITEHEAD COLLECTION

Roger De La Fresnaye (1885-1925)

Mon ami, Jean Cocteau

Closed13 November 2015

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Roger De La Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Mon ami, Jean Cocteau
signed and dated 'R de la Fresnaye 1912' (lower right) and inscribed 'mon ami, Jean Cocteau' (center left)
gouache, watercolor, colored wax crayons and charcoal on paper
12 ½ x 9 3/8 in. (32 x 23.3 cm.)
Executed in 1912

Private collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 10 April 1987, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead.

Specialist note

Though the present work is dated 1912, De la Fresnaye did not meet Jean Cocteau until several years later. The artist has here likely reworked an earlier watercolor from 1912, adding the likeness of his friend Cocteau at a later date. De la Fresnaye completed two other portraits of Cocteau in 1921 (Seligman, nos. 495 and 496).