Jean Cocteau working on the mural of the Chapelle Saint Pierre. Villefranche-sur-Mer 1956.

Jean Cocteau pauses from his work inside the Chapelle Saint Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1956. Standing on a simple A-frame ladder, he looks directly at the camera, positioned within the vast, in-progress murals that envelop the room’s vaulted ceiling and curved apse. The stylized, linear designs are rendered in bold black outlines, while the floor below is cluttered with paint cans and rags, evidence of the immense artistic undertaking.

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