Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
Alberto Giacometti
Sketches of Heads
Lot Closed
June 14, 12:20 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Sketches of Heads
Pen and ink on magazine page
22.7 x 13.7 cm (unframed); 50.5 x 38.3 (framed)
Executed after 1954
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti and is included in the Alberto Giacometti online Database under no. AGD 4123.
James Lord Collection (a gift from the artist)
Helmut Klewan Gallery, Munich
Galerie Biedermann, Munich
Private collection, Switzerland
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Larkin Erdmann Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Drawings, exh. cat., Zurich, 2018
Zurich, Larkin Erdmann Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Drawings, 2018
Alberto Giacometti executed this drawing on the magazine Nouvelle revue française no. 17, published on May 1st, 1954. The text refers to The Metamorphosis of the Gods by André Malraux.