Cocteau, Jean

Cocteau, Jean
(7/5/1892 Mainson-Laffitte- 10/11/1963 Milly-la-Foret) (France); aka Cocteau, Clement Eugene Jean Maurice
   Novelist, dramatist, draughtsman, filmmaker, and poet. Major literary figure of the 20th century, also produced numerous homoerotic drawings as a self-taught artist.
   Reproductions: Boy friends; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 141 . [Drawings of homosexual sex]; Neret, 2004: pp. 161 -167 [B]. [Fellatio scene]; Hill, 1996: p. 136 . Girl friends; 1925; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 140 [B]. Illustration [homosexual scene] for autobiography Le livre blanc: Hill, 1996: p. 135 [C]. Illustrations for Querelle of Brest by Genet; 1947; Neret, 1994: pp. 714-721 [B]. [Males copulating before a mirror]; Hurwood, 1975: p. 10 [B]. [Nude man with large erection]; Neret 1993: p. 26 [C].
   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 3: pp. 1172-1173; Jean Cocteau, The passionate penis: erotic drawings (London: Peter Owen, 1993); Margaret Crosland, Jean Cocteau: erotica drawings (Pennsylvania: Peter Owen, 1991); DoA vol. 7: pp. 507509; Annie Guedras (ed.), Jean Cocteau: erotic drawings (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1999); Vollmer I 1953: p. 456.

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