Les Dormeurs

A composition of several drawings of sleepers, including French novelist and poet, Raymond Radiguet in 1922, encompasses Les Dormeurs. This all-over motif is printed as a monochrome toile de Jouy. The toile de Jouy represents traditional everyday scenes, specifically, “Les Dormeurs” which suggests a languorous daily life of which Jean Cocteau was adept. He always said “dreams are the literature of sleep.”