Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Jean Cocteau a l'Epoque de la Grande Roue by Romaine Brooks

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
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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