Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from and Important French Collector
Alberto Giacometti
Tête d'homme
Auction Closed
November 15, 01:19 AM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from and Important French Collector
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Tête d'homme
inscribed Alberto Giacometti and numbered 4/6
bronze
height: 10 ⅝ in. 26.8 cm.
Conceived and cast by Rota Gay Foundry in 1961.
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重要法國私人收藏
阿爾伯托・賈柯梅蒂
1901 - 1966年
《男子頭像》
款識：藝術家銘刻 Alberto Giacometti 並標記4/6
青銅
高：10 ⅝ 英寸；26.8 公分
Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, Paris
Staempfli Gallery, New York
Private Collection, North America (acquired from the above on 18 May 1962)
Christie’s New York, November 16, 2016, lot 17B (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Private Collection, Paris
Staempfli Gallery, New York
Private Collection, North America (acquired from the above on 18 May 1962)
Christie’s New York, November 16, 2016, lot 17B (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Giacometti, 1961, (probably) no. 8; another cast listed
Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alberto Giacometti, 1962-63, another cast listed
Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & travelling to the United Stated and Canada, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974-75, no. 101, p. 119, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, The American Federation of Arts, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor and Draftsman, 1977, no. 10, illustration of another cast
Reinhold Hohl, ed., Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, p. 179, illustration of another cast in a Kunsthaus retrospective installation image
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. AGD 3639, illustrated (https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/en/database/182921/head-of-a-man)
Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alberto Giacometti, 1962-63, another cast listed
Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & travelling to the United Stated and Canada, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974-75, no. 101, p. 119, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, The American Federation of Arts, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor and Draftsman, 1977, no. 10, illustration of another cast
Reinhold Hohl, ed., Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, p. 179, illustration of another cast in a Kunsthaus retrospective installation image
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. AGD 3639, illustrated (https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/en/database/182921/head-of-a-man)