L'Ange Heurtebise. Poème avec une Photographie de l'Ange par Man Ray
Man Ray. Cocteau, Jean
Paris. Librairie Stock. 1925
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Jean Cocteau's valedictory poem for Raymond Radiguet with Man Ray's rayograph portrait.
From the edition limited to 355 numbered copies,with this one of 250 on vélin d'Arches à la cuve.
'The angel Heurtebise was not only a guardian angel, but also a kind of demon for artistic jack-of-all-trades Jean Cocteau. He showed up as a muse, but also as an angel of death and as the reincarnation of Cocteau's lover Raymond Radiguet, who had died prematurely. As legend has it, Cocteau was standing in an elevator when the angel spoke to him and divulged his name: it was the same as that of elevator manufacturer Heurtebise. In a haze that lasted seven days, Cocteau wrote the poem L'ange Heurtebise. Although the angel was supposed to be unknowable and invisible, surrealist photographer Man Ray was able to capture it in a photograph.' (Koninklijke Bibliothek).
From the edition limited to 355 numbered copies,with this one of 250 on vélin d'Arches à la cuve.
'The angel Heurtebise was not only a guardian angel, but also a kind of demon for artistic jack-of-all-trades Jean Cocteau. He showed up as a muse, but also as an angel of death and as the reincarnation of Cocteau's lover Raymond Radiguet, who had died prematurely. As legend has it, Cocteau was standing in an elevator when the angel spoke to him and divulged his name: it was the same as that of elevator manufacturer Heurtebise. In a haze that lasted seven days, Cocteau wrote the poem L'ange Heurtebise. Although the angel was supposed to be unknowable and invisible, surrealist photographer Man Ray was able to capture it in a photograph.' (Koninklijke Bibliothek).
[10 bifolia + 2 inserted leaves: 22 unnumbered leaves]. Folio. (380 x 284 mm). Leaf with half-title, printed title with justification verso, leaf with Man Ray's heliogravure frontispiece printed by Dujardin (373 x 274 mm), 16 leaves with Cocteau's verse recto only and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer; pages unopened, sheets uncut. Sheet size: 380 x 280 mm. Loose as issued in original publisher's white wrappers with printed titles to front cover in black, later glossy cream protective portfolio.
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