23 Sep 2010
14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge
Works by Jean Cocteau from the Collection of Severin Wunderman
Back to auction 18551
Works by Jean Cocteau from the Collection of Severin Wunderman
Back to auction 18551
Jean Cocteau (French, 1889-1963)
Marianne Oswald
pen and ink
24.5 x 17cm (9 5/8 x 6 11/16in).
pen and ink
24.5 x 17cm (9 5/8 x 6 11/16in).
Sold for
£960
inc. premium
Footnotes
- EXHIBITED:
Paris, Le Salon des Peintres du Spectacle, 1995
The French singer and actress Marianne Oswald (1901-1985) started her career in Berlin, but with the rise of Nazism, moved to Paris in 1931, singing in Le Bouef sur le Toit, the restaurant popularised by Cocteau, Picasso and their circle. She starred in the 1958 film Anna la Bonne, based on a poem by Cocteau and produced by the iconic filmmaker François Truffaut.
Category: Fine Art / Pictures
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