23 Sep 2010
14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge
Works by Jean Cocteau from the Collection of Severin Wunderman
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Works by Jean Cocteau from the Collection of Severin Wunderman
Back to auction 18551
Jean Cocteau (French, 1889-1963)
Jean Weiner, Le Boeuf sur le toit
signed 'Jean Cocteau' (lower right), inscribed 'Jean Weiner' (upper left), coloured crayon
26 x 20cm (10 1/4 x 7 7/8in).
signed 'Jean Cocteau' (lower right), inscribed 'Jean Weiner' (upper left), coloured crayon
26 x 20cm (10 1/4 x 7 7/8in).
Sold for
£2,640
inc. premium
Footnotes
- EXHIBITED:
Paris, Le Salon des Peintres du Spectacle, 1995
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1989
Jean Wiener (1896-1982) worked as a jazz pianist at Le Gaya, a bar on the Rue Duphot, and later at Le Bouef sur le Toit. Cocteau met Wiener around 1921, and Le Bouef sur le Toit soon became the epicentre of Parisian artistic life, attracting the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev and Maurice Chevalier, alongside Les Six, the group of avant-garde composers that Cocteau helped formulate as a backlash against the impressionist musical movement of Ravel and Debussy.
Category: Fine Art / Pictures
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