Theater Forain (Theatre Forain)

Prints and Drawings

1955/60

Jean Cocteau
French, 1889–1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Cocteau
Title: Theater Forain (Theatre Forain)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1955–1960
Medium: Fabricated black chalk on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower center, in graphite: Jean Cocteau”; inscribed upper right, in fabricated black chalk: “Theatre Forain”
Dimensions: sight: 26.5 × 20.3 cm (10 7/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Reference Number: 2024.111

JP Morgan Chase & Co., Chicago, from 1968 [donor records]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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