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Jean Cocteau Biography
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1889 |
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Born: Yvelines, France
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1900 - 1904 |
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Attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, France, however, left school shortly afterwards to pursue a writing career
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1908 |
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Published his first collection of poems, La Lampe d'Aladin(Aladdins Lamp)
Met the famous Russian ballet-impresario Sergei Diaghilev who ran the Ballets Russes
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1920 |
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Initiated the magazine "Le Coq", together with Raymond Radiguet
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1929 |
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Published hiis most famous novel, Les Enfants Terribles(Children of the Game)
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1930 |
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Made the first film, Le Sang d'un poète
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1949 |
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Was awarded a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
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1950 |
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Won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival
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1955 |
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Became a member of the Académie française and The Royal Academy of Belgium
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1963 |
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Died: Milly-la-Forêt, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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2010
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The Surreal Film House and Surreal Competition, Barbican Art Gallery, London, U.K
Jean Cocteau: sur les pas d'un magicien, Palais Lumière, Evian, France(solo)
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2009
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The Lovers by Jean Cocteau, Cocteau Museum, Menton, France(solo)
Jean Cocteau et la Méditerranée, Palais des Arts, Marseille, France(solo)
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2008
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Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA(solo)
Picasso 1917-1937, l'Arlecchino del Arte, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
Cocteau dessine l'Europe, Cosmopolis, Nantes, France
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2007
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Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawings by Writers, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Théâtre, cinéma, music-hall, ballet, Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
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2006
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Théâtre de la Mode, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA
Picasso and the Theatre, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Framkfurt, Germany
La main du poète: The Hand of the Poet, Flers Castle Museum, Flers, France
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2003
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Jean Cocteau: Spanning the Century, Center Pompidou, Paris, France(solo)
Jean Cocteau: Enfant Terrible, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada(solo)
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2001
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Jean Cocteau and Spain, Reina Sofia National Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain
Jean Cocteau: "Ils" Angels and Demons, Bunkamura Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveling to: Eki Museum, Kyoto, Japan
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2000
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Erotic works of Jean Cocteau, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA(solo)
Jean Cocteau, James Van Dammer Gallery, Brussels, Belgium(solo)
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1994
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Dance in Cocteau's Era, Serverin Wunderman Museum, Irvine, CA(solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Severin Wunderman Museum, Irvine, CA
Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton, France
The Cartier Colletion, Paris, France
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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| Literature |
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1990
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Cocteau, Jean. Souvenir portraits: Paris in the Belle Epoque. New York: Paragon House
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1989
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Touzot, Jean. Jean Cocteau. Lyon: Manufacture
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1984
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Peters, Arthur King. Jean Cocteau and the French Scene. New York: Abbeville Press
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1977
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Evans, Arthur B. Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press
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