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| Jean Cocteau à l'Époque de la Grande Roue (1912) Romaine Brooks (American, 1874-1970) Oil on canvas 251 x 135 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne on loan to Musée Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt |
"The painting originally included a pair of women on the balcony, standing apart from Cocteau; she cut the painting in half, making the Eiffel Tower the focus of the composition. Brooks would later delight in quoting [W. Somerset] Maugham, who predicted when the painting was first exhibited that Jean Cocteau would be remembered only because of Romaine Brooks's portrait of him."
Jamie James
Pagan Light : Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019
p.166-7
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