Diego Giacometti

Chat maître d'hôtel

stamped with the artist's monogram on the top of the base

bronze with green and brown black patina

Height : 11 ¼ in. ; 28,5 cm

Designed in 1961.

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Diego Giacometti
Chat maître d'hôtel

stamped with the artist's monogram on the top of the base

bronze with green and brown black patina

Height : 11 ¼ in. ; 28,5 cm

Designed in 1961.

Provenance

Adrien Maeght, Paris

Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, New York (acquired directly from the above in 1964)

Alice Fordyce, New York (gifted by her brother Albert D. Lasker in 1967)

Private collection (acquired from the Estate of the above)

Sale : Christie’s, London, Christie's Twentieth Century Art, 1 July 1999, lot 604 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above sale)

Sale : Christies, New York, La Ménagerie, 12 November 2019, lot 2

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Michel Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1985, pp. 121, illustrated in a photograph (another cast)

Françoise Francisci, Diego Giacometti, Catalogue de l'oeuvre, Paris, 1986, p. 18, illustrated (another cast)

Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 2005, p. 120, illustrated (another cast)

Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti: sculpteur de meubles, Paris, 2018, (other versions illustrated)