GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888-1978)
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888-1978)

Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire

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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888-1978)
Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire
woodcut, on laid paper, 1917, number 7 (from the edition contained in the ten deluxe copies of the program for the Manifestation SIC, June 24, 1917, co-presented by Pierre-Albert Birot, publisher and editor of the Revue SIC, and Guillaume Apollinaire), signed by Apollinaire on the title page, with full margins, the sheet toned, foxing in places in the margins, bound (as issued), with original cover and accompanying text pages
Image: 8 x 5 ¾ in. (203 x 146 mm.)
Sheet: 10 ¼ x 11 in. (260 x 279 mm.)

Specialist note

This work was presumably unknown to Alfonso Ciranna and is therefore unrecorded in his catalogue raisonné of de Chirico's graphic work. Chronologically it is his first published print.