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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Fabrizio Clerici, Jean Cocteau

(Milano 1913 - Roma 1993 & 1889 - 1963)

Jean Cocteau and Fabrizio Clerici, 1956

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 1.200 - 1.400

Sold

€ 2.074

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Series of 10 photographs - measures 245x 180 mm. - by Sandro Vespasiani, Roman photographer, made in Rome in Clerici's house - via della Lungarina - in 1956, during the design and production phases of the the pièce written by Cocteau, Les Chevalier de La Table Ronde , with sets and costumes by Fabrizio Clerici (later published in the homonymous splendid illustrated volume).

Specialist Notes

Beautiful testimony of the work of conception, selection, layout carried out by Cocteau and Clerici for the publication of the volume in question, which will be published in Rome for the types of Canesi with text by Jean Cocteau and drawings and tempera by Fabrizio Clerici.