Cocteau (Jean)

Poteries, lithograph poster in colours, on wove paper, with full margins, 630 x 480mm, printed by Mourlot, Paris, c.1958.

Provenance: With the Atelier Mourlot Collection rubber stamp verso.

Designed for a Pottery exhibition at the Tribunal de Peche de Villefranche sur Mer. During his career, Cocteau made more than three hundred ceramic pieces at the workshop of Madeline Jolly, drawing parallels from the colour of skin to the pink colour of clay on which he ‘tattooed’ his drawings. Entitled ‘Astrologie’, the surreal design in this poster was later transferred to an earthenware dish.