Eric Satie

Prints and Drawings

1916

Jean Cocteau
French, 1889-1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Cocteau
Title: Eric Satie
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1916–1963
Medium: Pen and blue ink (faded from black?), on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 27.2 × 21.1 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed
Reference Number: 1947.850
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Margaret Crosland, Jean Cocteau: A Biography (New York, 1956), p. 149.

Chicago, The Arts Club, “A Second Talent: An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Writers,” 1971, cat. 31.
University of Chicago, “Ballet Russe Exhibition,” June 25-November 15, 1975.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Modern Portraits,” October 29-November 27, 1976, cat. 20.
New York, Columbia University, Modern Portraits: The Self & Others, pp. 30-31 and 180, cat. 20 (ill.); traveled only to New York, Wildenstein and Company, October 20–November 28, 1976.
New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, “Cocteau Generations: Spirit of the French Avant-Garde,” May 16-June 23, 1984; traveled to Paris, The Pavillon des Arts, March 8-May 6, 1984; Miami, The Dade County Center for the Fine Arts, July 14-September 7, 1984; and Austin, Tex., the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas, October 7-November 25, 1984.

Given by Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1947.

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