2595

Preparatory drawing

Count Albert Apponyi de Nagyappony 1930

Head only, in three-quarter profile to the left

Charcoal and red chalk heightened with white on grey paper, 45.7 x 33cm (18 x 13 in.)

Inscribed lower right: count apponyi / 1930 / P A de L

Inscribed verso: 159 [black ink]

Sitters' Book II, opp. f. 66: Apponyi Albert Genf 930 / Sept. 26-28

Studio Inventory, p. 152 (159): Study of Graf Apponyi

Private Collection

The present drawing was made in Geneva in 1930, when the sitter was serving as Hungary's Chief Delegate to the League of Nations. The head is in a pose identical to the one in an oil portrait [2596] which remains untraced but is known from contemporary colour reproductions.

For biographical notes on the sitter and references to the other portraits of the sitter and his wife painted by de László, see [2596].

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death;

Sold at Christie's South Kensington, London, 13 June 1997, part of lot 83

Pd’O 2011