MAN RAY - COCTEAU (Jean). The Heurtebise... - Lot 725 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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MAN RAY - COCTEAU (Jean). The Heurtebise... - Lot 725 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
MAN RAY - COCTEAU (Jean). The Heurtebise Angel. Poem. With a photograph of the angel by Man Ray. P., Librairie Stock, 1925, in-folio, in sheets, cover printed in black (cover soiled and damaged, restored; pale scattered stains, trace and smell of moisture). First edition printed at 355 copies. 1/50 off-market copies on white vellum. Copy offered by Jean Cocteau to Marcel and Elise Jouhandeau on the occasion of their wedding: "à mes chers amis / Jouhandeau / Que mon ange soit témoin de votre bonheur / Jean". Annotation by Jouhandeau: "Gift / of marriage / from Jean / to Elise / and to me / June 1929". This book was later given to Doctor Maurice R. and his friend Marc Poujol: "this precious memory, a little / tired in appearance / 1925-1965 The years / are the cause / With all my heart / Marcel Jouhandeau". Marcel Jouhandeau got married at the age of 40, on June 4, 1929, in Paris, to a former dancer, Élisabeth Toulemont, known as Caryathis, Élise in his work. A friend of Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob, she had been the mistress of Charles Dullin. Élise hoped to divert her husband from his penchant for boys but, during the 1930s, these would prevail again and impose themselves definitively at the end of his life. Rare copy, complete with the rayogram of Man Ray printed in heliogravure by Dujardin in Paris (cleaned plate).
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