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COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) - COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A good original colour drawing signed by Cocteau, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1948). In various coloured pencils, predominantly pale blue and yellow, Cocteau has drawn a figure looking upwards, with the title Les parents Terribles alongside. Signed ( 'Jean Cocteau' ) in red pencil beneath the title (the signature somewhat indistinct). To the foot of the page Cocteau has added an A.L.S., Jean Cocteau , in blue ink, to Monsieur Georges, in French, stating, in full, 'Vous me demandez une photographie - et je n'en ai pas de bonne sous la main. J'ai pense que cette esquisse pour une couverture vous ferait plaisir' (Translation: 'You ask me for a photograph - and I don't have a good one handy. I thought this sketch for a cover would please you' ). Neatly mounted to a stiff card. Some light overall age toning and a couple of extremely small, minor stains to the upper and lower edges, otherwise about VG Les Parents terribles is a play written by Cocteau in 1938 and first performed at the Theatre des Ambassadeurs in November 1938. Its run was terminated the following month amid accusations of immortality and the production was transferred to the Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens in January 1939 where it continued until the outbreak of World War II. In 1948 a film adaptation was released, directed and narrated by Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.