Lot n° 79
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EUR
Pierre Roy, Giorgio de Chirico (after): Portrait of Guillaum - Lot 79
Pierre Roy, Giorgio de Chirico (after): Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire — “Premonitory Portrait,” 1943
Woodcut on laid paper
Signed on the plate with the monograms “P.R.” (Pierre Roy, lower left) and “G.C.” (Giorgio de Chirico, lower right); no handwritten signature, as published
Dimensions: Sheet: 26 × 20 cm (10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Image dimensions to be confirmed — H × W
Condition: Good; typographic text printed on the reverse (sheet as published); frayed edges; unframed
Period: 1914 (image / plate); this print, 1943
Sheet from “Présence d’Apollinaire,” catalog of the exhibition “Le Temps d’Apollinaire” (organized by Gaston Diehl), Galerie René Breteau, Paris, December 1943–January 1944; quarto, loose-leaf, illustrated with five woodcuts
Based on Giorgio de Chirico’s 1914 composition, here is the famous “premonitory” portrait of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire: a dark silhouette in profile marked at the temple by a white circle—disturbingly foreshadowing the head injury Apollinaire sustained in 1916 — surmounting an antique bust of a poet wearing dark glasses, a fish, and a shell cast, the metaphysical attributes of the seer. Pierre Roy engraved the woodcut in 1914 as the intended frontispiece for Apollinaire’s planned collection *Et moi aussi je suis peintre* (*And I, Too, Am a Painter*), which the war prevented from being published; the image finally appeared in the tribute volume *Présence d’Apollinaire* (1943), of which this sheet is the engraved page. The original engraved woodblock is housed at the Centre Pompidou (from the “Wall of André Breton’s Studio”).
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