Jean Cocteau - Erotische Zeichnungen - 1999

The man plays a supporting role in the artistic world, which is completely devoted to Eros. However, Cocteau plays a leading role as one of the most important gay artists at the beginning of the 20th century. His graphic work is unknown to many, although many know Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) as a writer, poet, playwright, critic, and film director (Orpheus trilogy). He had close friendships with Jean Genet and Marcel Proust. He is considered a provocateur of his time, an enfant terrible and avant-gardist of the 20s.

On display are young fantasies, sailors, wrestlers, Greek figures, embraces, cyclists, individual fauns and fishermen from convincing perspectives. The style and the lines may vary, but the pictures from four decades all radiate a tremendous inner power, the longing for passion and desire. And this is obvious: big, uncircumcised cocks.