DP MJCCSW 4.10_EN - copie - Maison de la France
DP MJCCSW 4.10_EN - copie - Maison de la France
DP MJCCSW 4.10_EN - copie - Maison de la France
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Lucien Clergue Donation<br />
Lucien Clergue, born on 14th August 1934 in Arles, is a French photographer, a member of the<br />
Académie <strong>de</strong> Beaux-‐Arts, part of the Institut <strong>de</strong> <strong>France</strong>. Through his connection with his close<br />
friend Pablo Picasso, Clergue met Jean Cocteau in 1956, with whom he maintained a friendship<br />
and professional rapport until 1963 and the <strong>de</strong>ath of the poet. Clergue's photographs of gypsies<br />
inspired some of Cocteau's <strong>de</strong>signs for the Chapel of Saint-‐Pierre in Villefranche and the<br />
Wedding Room in the Town Hall of Menton. In 1959, when Jean Cocteau was preparing to shoot<br />
his <strong>la</strong>st full-‐length film in the quarries of Baux <strong>de</strong> Provence, he invited Lucien Clergue to<br />
photograph the filming, backstage with the crew and actors. These won<strong>de</strong>rful photographs,<br />
<strong>la</strong>belled by Cocteau, will be inclu<strong>de</strong>d in the book entitled Phénixologie.<br />
Lucien Clergue, Jean Cocteau et Edouard Dermit avec<br />
le masque <strong>de</strong> mort, 1959-‐2011<br />
Tirage argentique noir et b<strong>la</strong>nc<br />
50 x 60 cm<br />
N° inv 2011.2.49<br />
musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wun<strong>de</strong>rman<br />
© Lucien Clergue<br />
Lucien Clergue, Jean Cocteau et Edouard Dermit avec<br />
le masque <strong>de</strong> mort, 1959-‐2011<br />
Tirage argentique noir et b<strong>la</strong>nc<br />
50 x 60 cm<br />
N° inv 2011.2.49<br />
musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wun<strong>de</strong>rman<br />
© Lucien Clergue<br />
On the occasion of the opening of the Musée Jean Cocteau, the Séverin Wun<strong>de</strong>rman Collection,<br />
Lucien Clergue has ma<strong>de</strong> a gift to the town of Menton of a collection of 240 original<br />
photographs, linked to the work of Jean Cocteau. The editions were ma<strong>de</strong> thanks to the<br />
generous assistance oMichael Likierman.<br />
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