Jean CocteauEtude d'Homme Nu - Joueur de Sport. Study of a Male Nude - The Sportsman.

Drawing in black soft pencil (graphite). c. 1958. Signed with the artist's monogram stamp - (the studio stamp placed on all drawings in Cocteau's studio at the time of his death).

Provenance: Collection Edouard Dermit - The artist's adopted son and also star of many of his early films who inherited the whole contents of the artist's studio. Acquired from Dermit by the US private collector FM.

On cream wove sketchbook paper. Sheet: 390 x 320 mm. Image overall approx.: 300 x 140 mm.