Artworks · Jean Cocteau

Tender Homage to Mary Reynolds

1955 · Green crayon on off-white wove paper

27 × 20.9 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sphinx

1955 · Pastel on black wove paper, laid down on board

49.2 × 64.4 cm (19 3/8 × 25 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ville de Nice, Jean Cocteau, Tapisserie-Peintures-Dessins

1953 · Photolithograph

25 x 39 1/2" (63.5 x 100.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boy

1950 · Pastel on magenta wove paper, commercially laminated to board

49.3 × 64.5 cm (19 7/16 × 25 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Teatre du Vieux Colombien, Jean Baptiste, Le Mal Aimé

1948 · Lithograph

25 1/2 x 15 5/8" (64.9 x 39.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frog, Mouse, Lizards

1936 · Graphite, with colored pencils, on buff laid paper, laid down on board

26.9 × 24 cm (10 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pearl Earring

1935 · Pastel on green wove paper, laid down on board

64.2 × 49 cm (25 5/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Serge Lifar

1932 · Pen and black ink, with graphite and brush and black wash, on ivory wove paper

27 × 21 cm (10 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Boy in Profile

1930 · Pencil on paper

11 5/8 x 8 3/8" (29.5 x 21.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Jean Desbordes

1928 · Pen and black ink, with finger smudging, on white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper

42.7 × 34 cm (16 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Monroe Wheeler

1927 · Ink on paper

10 3/4 x 8 1/4" (27.0 x 20.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Glenway Wescott

1926 · Ink on paper

10 3/8 x 7 7/8" (26.1 x 20.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Maison de Santé

1925 · Pen and black ink, on ivory wove tracing paper

26.9 × 20.9 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece (folio 3) from Les Biches, vol. I

1924 · One from an illustrated book with eighteen collotype reproductions (including cover)

plate: 6 1/8 × 4 3/4" (15.6 × 12.1 cm); page (each approx.): 11 × 8 7/8" (28 × 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Nightmare (Cauchemar)

1919 · Graphite with smudging on ivory wove paper

23.7 × 26.9 cm (9 3/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Leonide Massine

1917 · Graphite, on ivory wove paper

27.4 × 41.5 cm (10 13/16 × 16 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Auric and Cocteau

1917 · Pen and black ink, on cream wove paper

20.8 × 26.9 cm (8 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Eric Satie

1916 · Pen and blue ink (faded from black?), on cream wove paper

27.2 × 21.1 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Documents concerning Parade: [Cocteau's handwritten notes for Parade captioned "Le Prestidigitateur chinois"]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents concerning Parade: ["Etudes pour Parade": Cocteau's handwritten notes]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents concerning Parade: [Cocteau's handwritten draft of libretto for Parade]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents concerning Parade: [Cocteau's handwritten notes for Parade captioned "L'acrobate"]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents concerning Parade: [Cocteau's handwritten notes for Parade captioned "La Petite Fille Americaine"]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents concerning Parade: [Notes by Cocteau]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Documents concerning Parade: [Handwritten letter from Cocteau, undated (1)]

1916

62 items : illustrations, music

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky

1913 · Pen and brown ink, on golden-yellow wove tracing paper (discolored from cream)

30 × 20.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Spectre de la Rose (Nijinsky)

1911 · Lithograph

49 3/4 x 41 7/8" (126.4 x 106.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait

1909 · Pen and black ink, on ivory wove tracing paper

26.9 × 20.9 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Scene of Orpheus (Scène d'Orphée)

Cut-and-pasted printed paper and gelatin silver print, crayon, and ink on board

13 1/4 x 16 1/2" (33.7 x 41.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art