Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
Jean Cocteau
'Florentine Profil' Pendant
Lot Closed
October 6, 05:28 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Cocteau
1889 - 1963
'Florentine Profil' Pendant
1958, signed Jean Cocteau on reverse
terracotta pendant with pink and gray encrusted clay is a production of the Madeline-Jolly potters workshop, and is part of an unnumbered series. Sold together with (Book) Claude Arnaud, Jean Cocteau: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016
2⅓ by 1⅞ in.; 5.8 by 4.5 cm.
Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, June 7, 2010, lot 232
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Artist’s Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en-Provence, 2001, p. 82, for similar plaster and gold versions