Jean COCTEAU Self-portrait of Jean l'oiseleur n°24 - 1924 Ink on paper h:27.0 CM, d:21.0 CM Annotated "False beauty / sits on / a throne / of velvet / and / gold / True beauty / leans atrociously / over the void / like a clown musician / playing the mandolin / on top of a pile of chairs / the geomancer" Provenance : Liliane and Etienne Saint-Georges, Brussels Sale Lyon, De Baecque, 26 January 2012, lot 14 European private collection Exhibitions : Ixelles, Musée d'Ixelles, Jean Cocteau, October-December 1991 Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, n°242 Paris, Centre Pompidou, Jean Cocteau sur le fil du siècle, September 2003- January 2004 Evian, Palais Lumière, Jean Cocteau, in the footsteps of a magician, February-May 2010