Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire

LOUIS MARCOUSSIS (1883-1941) Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire numbered 'IX' in pencil, a fine, richly printed impression etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid Arches paper Image: 19 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (49.2 x 27.6 cm.) Sheet: 24 1/8 x 17 3/8 in. (61.3 x 44.1 cm.) Executed in 1912-1920. This work was printed in an edition of thirty impressions - ten in the fifth state in black and twenty in the sixth (final) state in sanguine. This impression is from the fifth state and is, as far as we know, the only example of this state to appear at auction in over 30 years.