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Portrait of Jean Genet II (1950) by Leonor Fini.<\/em><\/p>\n Artworks depicting Genet or based on his work are more plentiful than I thought. These are some of the better examples. It’s good to know that the great Leonor Fini was one of the earliest portraitists; in addition to painting two pictures of Genet she also produced a series of erotic engravings<\/a> based on his writings.<\/p>\n Jean Genet (1952) by Jean Cocteau.<\/em><\/p>\n A portrait by Cocteau I hadn’t seen before.<\/p>\n Portrait of Jean Genet (1955) by Alberto Giacometti.<\/em><\/p>\n One of three portraits. Genet speaks favourably of Giacometti in Antoine Bourseiller’s film<\/a>.<\/p>\n For Jean Genet (1969) by Anselm Kiefer.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Homage to Jean Genet (1971) by John Quitman.<\/em><\/p>\n Untitled (Genet, after Brassai) (1978\u201379) by David Wojnarowicz.<\/em><\/p>\n Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison (1983) by David Wojnarowicz.<\/em><\/p>\n A Dazzling Pimp Carved From an Archangel (2003) by David Hutchinson.<\/em><\/p>\n A painting from Hutchinson’s Purging Genet<\/em><\/a> series. See also Hutchinson’s Genet Biography<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Jean Genet (2010) by Rinaldo Hopf.<\/em><\/p>\n Another portrait painted over pages from one of the novels. From Hopf’s Poets<\/em><\/a> series which includes more Genet pieces.<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Portrait of Jean Genet II (1950) by Leonor Fini. Artworks depicting Genet or based on his work are more plentiful than I thought. These are some of the better examples. It’s good to know that the great Leonor Fini was one of the earliest portraitists; in addition to painting two pictures of Genet she also … Continue reading “Genet art”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,5,44,41],"tags":[4475,3158,4474,6335,2010,425,132,751,6334,4523,730,6336],"class_list":["post-15501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-gay","category-painting","category-sculpture","tag-alberto-giacometti","tag-anselm-kiefer","tag-antoine-bourseiller","tag-david-hutchinson","tag-david-wojnarowicz","tag-exterface","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-jean-genet","tag-john-quitman","tag-labyrinths","tag-leonor-fini","tag-rinaldo-hopf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-421","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"cocteau.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cocteau.jpg\")
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