On the docks of the harbor at Villefranche-sur-Mer Jean Cocteau receives in a fishnet a life-size gold sardine from fisherman Paul Dunan, known as ''The Pirate''. This present, created by a Nicois jeweller, is from the fishermen as a thank-you for the restoration and decoration works undertaken by the writer on the Chapelle Saint Pierre. Villefranche-Sur-Mer 1959.
With a pensive expression, writer Jean Cocteau holds a life-size gold sardine mounted on a marble base. The trophy was a gift from the fishermen of Villefranche-sur-Mer, presented by Paul Dunan in gratitude for Cocteau's restoration of the Chapelle Saint Pierre. Dressed in a textured jacket with a small tusk-like object pinned to the lapel, he holds a cigarette between his weathered fingers. Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1959.
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