Jean Desbordes

Prints and Drawings

1928

Jean Cocteau
French, 1889-1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Cocteau
Title: Jean Desbordes
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1928–1963
Medium: Pen and black ink, with finger smudging, on white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 42.7 × 34 cm (16 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed
Reference Number: 1947.851
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago,” November 4-25, 1938, cat. 115.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “20th Century Master Drawings,” 1963-1964, cat. 22; traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., the University of Minnesota Gallery, and Cambridge, Mass., the Fogg Art Museum.
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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Mary Reynolds Collection,” October 9, 1995-April, 1996.

Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.

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