Cocteau Art
Galerie Madeline-Jolly
From spring to Christmas, the Madeline-Jolly gallery devoted to Jean Cocteau’s graphic and plastic work invites you to discover his poetic universe through : the original edition of ceramics, workshop-sketches as well as lithographies, serigraphies, sculptures and jewels.
There the visitor will find again all themes which have inspired his life: mythology, whose the great figures nourrished Jean Cocteau’s theatre and poetry.
His affection for the South, and particularly Etrurian Italy which urged him to become a ceramist.
Also Venice and Harlequins, Greece, Spain and bullfights, the Mediterranean, its lascivious fishermen, fauna and attractive “chèvre-pied” mark his romantic work.
Faces, double-faces, couples, profiles as well as odes to beauty are lavishly illustrated in portraits which the Poet engraved in clay.
The gallery is open by appointment
Contact: (33) (0)3 85 79 60 31
Poetry has the right to express itself through any vehicle. Its river isn’t only an ink river and does not follow the example of bad subjects, the poet must be able to do anything.
