1980s Jean Marais, The Beast and the Beauty, Bronze Sculpture Signed.

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This creation called Zoomorphe is a sculpture inspired by Beauty & The Beast by Jean Cocteau. This work created by … Read more This creation called Zoomorphe is a sculpture inspired by Beauty & The Beast by Jean Cocteau. This work created by JEAN MARAIS and manufactured in the artist's workshops in Vallauris represents a double-sided two-headed faun with a different appearance. Original signed Jean Marais
Numbered 43/75.

Jean Marais ( 1913-1998 )

Jean Cocteau's lover, Jean Marais is revealed to the theater by the successful works of his pygmalion, Œdipe Roi in 1937, Les Parents terribles the following year and La Machine à écrire in 1941. The film L'Éternelrel Retour (1943) by Jean Delannoy, written by Cocteau based on the legend of Tristan and Iseut, erects him as an icon of French youth, with dazzling beauty, in the middle of the Second World War. The poet then directed him in his realizations - Beauty and the Beast (1946), The Eagle with Two Heads (1948), The Terrible Parents (1949) and Orpheus (1950) - and screenwriters Ruy Blas (1948) and The Princess of Clèves (1961). At the same time, Marais always has the support of critics to the theater, especially in plays of the classical repertoire.

From the 1950s, giving revigon to cape and sword cinema, he established himself as a popular hero of adventure films in costumes, in adaptations of masterpieces of the genre, generally under the direction of André Hunebelle. He thus attracted a large audience in Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1955), Le Bossu (1959), Le Capitan (1960), Le Capitaine Fracasse and Le Miracle des loups (1961), Les Mystères de Paris (1962) or Le Masque de fer (1962). Fifteen years before Jean-Paul Belmondo, he impressed by performing most of his stunts. He converted in the 1960s to modern action and spy films, especially with the lucrative Fantomas trilogy.

Later, with the exception of his role in Jacques Demy's Peau d'âne (1970), Jean Marais turned less, for lack of proposals, and devoted himself rather to the theater, while becoming a recognized sculptor and potter in Vallauris. He also maintains the memory of Jean Cocteau, although he is not his heir. In 1993, he received an honorary César for his entire career. See less