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Monsieur Et Madame J.M.S, Serge De Diaghilew

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Monsieur Et Madame J.M.S, Serge De Diaghilew

From the first edition, one of only 625 copies, this being one of 400 sur vélin pur fil Lafuma.

Serge De Diaghilew was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes.

Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then re-tie them differently.”

A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.
$230.85

Original: $659.57

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Monsieur Et Madame J.M.S, Serge De Diaghilew

$659.57

$230.85

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From the first edition, one of only 625 copies, this being one of 400 sur vélin pur fil Lafuma.

Serge De Diaghilew was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes.

Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then re-tie them differently.”

A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.
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