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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 17, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction | 21 | $****** - ****** | Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire |
Works on Paper
62 x 55.1 cm (24.41 x 21.69 in)
charcoal, pastel and gouache on paper
inscribed G. de Chirico (lower right)
Paul Éluard, Paris
René Gaffé, Brussels
Sir Roland Penrose CBE, London (acquired from the above through E.L.T. Mesens on 15 July 1937)
Marcel Zerbib, Paris (acquired from the above in 1953)
William N. Copley, Paris and New York (acquired by 1966)
Sotheby"s, New York, The William N. Copley Collection , 5 November 1979, lot 8 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Chirico-Picasso , 1937, no. 3 (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1913)
London Gallery, Giorgio de Chirico , 1938, no. 16, p. 13 (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1913)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, First Papers of Surrealism , 1942, n.p., illustrated (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1915)
James Thrall Soby, Giorgio de Chirico, New York, 1955, p. 64, illustrated (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1914)
Francine du Plessix, “William Copley, The Artist As Collector,” Art in America , vol. 53, no. 6, December 1965-January 1966, p. 66, illustrated in a photograph of William N. Copley"s New York apartment (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1918)
Maurizio Fagiolo, Giorgio de Chirico: Il tempo di Apollinaire, Rome, 1981, no. 9, p. 22; p. 23, illustrated (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated circa 1926)
Paolo Baldacci, De Chirico. 1888-1919, La metafisica , Milan, 1997, p. 423, illustrated (dated circa 1938)
Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich; Munich, Haus der Kunst and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Arnold Böcklin - Giorgio de Chirico - Max Ernst. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse , 1997-98, no. 61, p. 322, illustrated; pp. 323-24
Victoria Noel-Johnson, De Chirico and the United Kingdom (c. 1916 - 1978) , Rome, 2017, pp. 70 and 397, illustrated; pp. 60 and 788
Victoria Noel-Johnson, “De Chirico in the René Gaffé Collection & the Role of E.L.T Mesens (Brussels - London),” Metaphysical Art , no. 19/20, 2020, fig. 23, p, 63, illustrated; pp. 68 and 81 (dated circa 1934)
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire
inscribed G. de Chirico (lower right)
charcoal, pastel and gouache on paper
62 by 55.1 cm. 24⅜ by 21¾ in.
Executed in 1934.
Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the supplementary volume of the Complete Works of Max Ernst now in preparation, edited by Prof. Dr. Werner Spies in collaboration with Dr. Jürgen Pech and Sigrid Metken.
Formerly in the collections of Paul Éluard, René Gaffé, Roland Penrose, Marcel Zerbib and William N. Copley.
