Jean Marais "Le Théâtre"

Four-panel folding screen, hand-painted white line decoration on black wool.

A unique example, executed prior to the lithograph of the same title.

The composition runs across all four panels: a seated nude youth in the manner of an antique ephebe, one hand resting over a tragic mask flushed in coral.
Inscribed in white script upper left: Le Théâtre Jean Marais.
Gilt-brass edging and ball feet.

Shown alongside a Saint Laurent bolero from the Fall-Winter 1979 collection, titled « Homage to Diaghilev », founder of the Ballets Russes alongside Cocteau; Jean Marais’s lifelong companion.