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Jean COCTEAU

Les chevaliers de la Table ronde

Gallimard, Paris 1937, 12x19cm, relié.

First Edition, review copy service. Bound in black half morocco, smooth spine, tail date, dishes marbled, endpapers and contreplats paper mouse, covers and spine preserved (four small holes in the top and bottom of spine faded, two small spots in the second foot flat , tiny spots on the front cover), gilded head, elegant binding signed P. Goy. Autograph signed by the author pianist Misia (Sert), enriched with a drawing by Jean Cocteau representative profile. Emblematic figure of the Belle Époque, Misia had an important place in the life of Cocteau recounts his meeting at the Theatre du Chatelet in a performance of the Ballets Russes: "It is impossible to imagine [....] the sunny world of Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Debussy, Ravel, Prophetic projectors Lautrec, Mallarmé prism [...] arise without seeing the figure of a young tiger taped [...] we saw in Misia the night we knew each other in the plume of Scheherazade, enthroned in the center of the royal houses of the Russian Ballet and populating its fluid [...] violent dances, as formerly, Impressionist Gardens, sequined sun. " The passionate friendship qu'entretint Cocteau with Misia, muse of artists and writers of the Belle Époque, deeply influenced the poet whose many works recount the tumultuous life: "Thomas the Impostor", "The Human Voice", "The Superstars "are all inspired by this unusual character who was also a literary muse for Proust, Radiguet, Gide, Morand, Mallarmé ... and an artistic model for Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vallotton, Vuillard, Renoir ... Thus the portrait Cocteau crunches on page false pulls does it echo this impressive gallery of paintings which Misia was the dedicatee and that the Musée d'Orsay in 2012 devoted a major exhibition entitled "Misia, Queen of Paris." Nice copy well established.

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