Name: LOUIS MARCOUSSIS (1878-1941)
Brand: Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire
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LOUIS MARCOUSSIS (1878-1941)
Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire
etching, aquatint and drypoint in bistre, 1912-20, on laid paper, a fine impression of the sixth, final state, after the removal of the publisher's address, signed and dedicated 'A mon chèr Leonardi/ tres affectueusement/ Marcoussis' in pencil, erroneously inscribed '5e état' by the artist, a proof aside from the edition of thirty comprising ten impressions of the 5th, and twenty of the 6th state
Plate 497 x 277 mm.
Sheet 570 x 370 mm.

Milet 33

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants, 28 March - 27 September 2020, no. 509, p. 317 (this impression illustrated).

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This important portrait of Wilhelm de Kostrowitsky, known as Guillaume Apollinaire, was begun in 1912 but left unfinished during the war. It was resumed and finished in 1920 (hence the two dates in the plate lower right) after the poet's death. Marcoussis would later complete another three portraits of him; a lithograph published in a special separate number of L'Esprit Nouveau (M. 38), a woodcut (M. 43) and an etching featured in the album 'Eaux-Fortes pour Alcools' (M. 113).