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Alberto Giacometti

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alberto Giacometti
  • CARAFE, TASSE, RÉVEIL ET BALANCE (STAMPA)
  • signé Alberto Giacometti et daté 1960 (en bas à droite)
  • crayon sur papier
  • 49 x 31 cm ; 19 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Alberto Giacometti, dessins, 1968, no. 53
Paris, Artcurial, Hommmage au président Georges Pompidou, un homme de culture, 1987

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is taped to the overmount at all four edges. The sheet is slightly wavy along the upper edge. Apart from a very minor spot of foxing in the upper right quadrant and a very pale 1cm. line of dirt towards the left part of the upper edge, this work is in very good original condition
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Alberto Giacometti' and dated '1960' (lower right), pencil on paper. Executed in 1960.