Produced for the 1975 Hommage à Breker portfolio, this poster reproduces Cocteau’s contribution to a limited edition of lithographs produced by Galerie Marco, and celebrating sculptor Arno Breker on his 75th birthday, alongside works by Salvador Dalí, Ernst Fuchs, and André Dunoyer de Segonzac.

The image—a continuous, expressive contour enriched with handwritten notation—functions as a poetic salute rather than a literal portrait, blending figure, text, and gesture in Cocteau’s distinctive late graphic style. This fusion was central to Cocteau’s creative philosophy: he famously described drawing as “unravelling handwriting and tying it up again, but differently,” privileging immediacy and performative mark-making over descriptive illusion.

The lines and inscriptions evoke both theatrical presence and intellectual intimacy, aligning with the edition’s title, Hommage, and reflecting Cocteau’s belief that drawing is an extension of thought.