Portrait de Roland Petit (recto); Étude de tête d'oiseau (verso)

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Portrait de Roland Petit (recto); Étude de tête d'oiseau (verso)
signé 'Jean Cocteau' (en bas à droite)
crayon de couleurs sur papier
50.1 x 32.9 cm.
Exécuté vers 1946

signed 'Jean Cocteau' (lower right)
coloured crayon on paper
19³⁄₄ x 13 in.
Executed circa 1946

Edouard Dermit, Milly-la-Forêt (avant 1989).
Collection Roland Petit et Zizi Jeanmaire, Paris.

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Jean Cocteau, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Keramik, Tapisserien, Literatur, Theater, Film, Ballet, mai-juillet 1989, no. 491.
Genève, Musée Rath, Zizi Jeanmaire – Roland Petit, Un patrimoine pour la danse, avril-août 2007, p. 56, no. 9 (illustré en couleurs).

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