Untitled: Self Portrait

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From the first edition, one of only 625 copies, this being one of 400 sur vélin pur fil Lafuma.This Untitled piece is thought to be a self portrait of Jean Cocteau in profile.Publi shed as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then re-tie them differently.”A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving. Show more