About this artwork
Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky,1880- 1918), a poet of illegitimate birth and mixed Polish and Italian ancestry, settled in Paris and began signing his poems Guillaume Apollinaire in 1903. He mixed with a circle of artists and writers that included Picasso and the author Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), and became the lover of the painter Marie Laurencin (1885-1956). He edited a number of reviews, published satirical and semi-porno graphic texts, and proclaimed that the writings of the Marquis de Sade would dominate the 20th century. In 1918, Apollinaire died from wounds he suffered during the First World War. His stature as a forerunner of Surrealism continued to grow after his death, largely due to the intense eroticism and highly original verbal and typographical styles that are the hallmarks of his work (see his Calligrammes, Paris, 1918).
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Louis Marcoussis
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Title
- Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1912–1920
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Medium
- Etching, drypoint, and aquatint in black on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 49.4 × 27.8 cm (19 1/2 × 11 in.); Sheet: 61.5 × 44.5 cm (24 1/4 × 17 9/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann in memory of Carl O. Schneiwind
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Reference Number
- 1958.553
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris