Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, [5] to Georges Cocteau and Eugénie Lecomte, a socially prominent Parisian family. His father, a lawyer and amateur painter, died by suicide when …

Jean Cocteau (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died October 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris) was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter.

Apr 25, 2024 · Jean Cocteau, the French poet, playwriter, director, artist and author whose life was as turbulent and eclectic as his oeuvre.

Jean Cocteau was a multifaceted intellectual who, from the 1920s to the 1950s, worked as a writer, draftsman, painter, printmaker, stage designer, and filmmaker.

Cocteau met and worked with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Erik Satie, published several volumes of poems, began writing plays and ballets, and established himself as a leading member of the …

During Cocteau's recovery from his opium addiction, the artist created some of his most important works including the stage play Orphee, the novel, Les Enfants terribles, and many long poems.

Jean Cocteau died the day after his close friend, Edith Piaf, in 1963. The prophetic epitaph on his gravestone reads “I stay with you”, and indeed, his influence continues to radiate throughout Western …

Jan 18, 2024 · The art of the 20th century cannot be imagined without Jean Cocteau. Get to know him through theater, music, and cinema.

Jean Cocteau, at the height of his fame, experienced a period of intense creativity, marked by the ‘avant-garde’. He collaborated with musicians such as Érik Satie (Parade, 1917) and Darius Milhaud, …

Cocteau explored writing, painting and drawing, theatre and film, and linked disparate forms of art making in explorations of myth, dream, and sexual identity.