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- His adopted son, the painter Édouard Dermit, who also appears in his later films, continued the decoration of a chapel at Fréjus, a work Cocteau had not completed at his death at age 74.
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Jean Cocteau. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( UK: / ˈkɒktoʊ / KOK-toh, US: / kɒkˈtoʊ / kok-TOH, French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant ...
- The Frivolous Prince
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, 5 July 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, France
- 1908–1963
- 11 October 1963 (aged 74), Milly-la-Forêt, France
Apr 25, 2024 · Apr 25, 2024 • By Charlotte Davis, BA Art History. Jean Cocteau’s life was characterized by a series of highs and lows. He was no stranger to abuse and tragedy, which caused him to recede into a world of fantastical, childlike wonder. This manifested in a wide-ranging, definitive, and unusual body of work that has come to characterize 20th ...
Jean Cocteau was born on 5th July 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, in a village near Paris, in a socially prominent Parisian family, to Georges Cocteau and Eugenie Lecomte. He had other two siblings, Marthe and Paul.
Apr 5, 2024 · Jean Cocteau (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died October 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris) was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter. Some of his most important works include the poem L’Ange Heurtebise (1925; “The Angel Heurtebise”); the play Orphée (1926; Orpheus ); the ...
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Jean Cocteau was born to Georges Cocteau and Eugénie Lecomte on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, a small town near Paris. He had a very solitary childhood, as his two siblings, Marthe and Paul, were both much older.
- French
- July 5, 1889
- Maisons-Laffitte, France
- October 11, 1963
Jan 18, 2024 · Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (1889-1963) was a prince of bohème. A significant figure in the European art of the 20th century, Cocteau called himself a poet in the broadest sense of the word: a poet, a playwright, a filmmaker, and an artist. The history of 20th-century art cannot be imagined without Jean Cocteau.
Maisons-Laffitte, France, 1889–Milly-La-Forêt, France, 1963. Jean Cocteau was a multifaceted intellectual who, from the 1920s to the 1950s, worked as a writer, draftsman, painter, printmaker, stage designer, and filmmaker. Cocteau’s artistic practice was closely tied to his roles as an instigator and patron of the visual and literary ...
