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Édouard Dermit
Édouard Dermit
French (1925–1995)
- Date: circa 1970
- Screenprint considered opinion Arches, autographed and numbered in pencil
- Edition a mixture of 150, XXV
- Image Size: 19.5 x 25 inches
- Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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About Representation Artist: Édouard Dermit
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OBITUARY: Edouard Dermit
In early 1947, when Jean Cocteau started to live at Milly-la-Foret, in the house where he was to die nearly 20 years later, he engaged a young gardener, the sensationally handsome Edouard Dermit, who was destined to play a leading part in his life and work.
Dermit was 22 when he first encountered Cocteau. He was the son of a Lorraine miner, and Edouard too worked in the iron mines, developing the magnificent blond physique that Cocteau was to reveal to the world in three of his greatest films, Les Enfants Terribles (1949), Orphee (1950) and Le Testament d'Orphee (1959). His name in this last of Cocteau's films was Segeste, but he had been baptised Antoine, and Edouard was a name given him by his mother, popularly shortened to Doudou. Segeste was the name of one of Cocteau's angels in his early poem "L'Ange Heurtebise."
The poet entrusted the direction of Les Enfants Terribles to Jean-Pierre Melville, and in its hothouse ambiance Dermit gives a fine restrained performance as Paul, playing opposite Nicole Stephane as his sister Elizabeth. This memorable performance by an unknown actor, carefully coached by Cocteau and sensitively directed by Melville, was a sensation. The beautiful lighting and the haunting music by Georges Auric added to the film's s
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About the artist:
Édouard Dermit (ou Dermithe), stage name of Antoine Dermit, born January 18, 1925 in Gradisca (County of Gorizia and Gradisca) 1, and died May 15, 1995 in Paris, is a French actor and painter. Edward Dermit is the adopted son and sole heir of Jean Cocteau. Extremely handsome, and has a silhouette of the Greek god, it keeps forever the nickname "Doudou" for his kindness never feigned sweetness of his character and his benevolent wisdom. In film, he remains forever Juvenile Paul film Les Enfants Terribles by Jean-Pierre Melville's novel Cocteau (1950). Also a painter - he exhibited several times at the Lucie Weill gallery - notably Edward Dermit completed in 1965, the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Frejus Jean Cocteau began to draw and did not have the time to finish his death October 11, 1963. He dealt with great care to manage the work of Cocteau and shared his time between the homes of the writer located in the neighborhood of the Palais Royal and Milly-la-Forêt. In the late 1960s, he married, Eliane Dubroca, a young woman model at Dior and gave him two son, the elder John (Jacqueline Picasso was his godmother and godfather Jean Marais), and Stéphane (Francine Weisweiller being her godmother and godfather Pierre Bergé