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Property from The Schlumberger Collection

Alberto Giacometti

"Osselet" Floor Lamp

Live auction begins on:

December 10, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Bid

110,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The Schlumberger Collection

Alberto Giacometti

"Osselet" Floor Lamp


designed 1933-1934, executed by 1974

patinated bronze, linen shade

58 ⅜ in. (148.3 cm) high, excluding fittings


Offered together with copies of written correspondence between Diego Giacometti and Anne Schlumberger

Collection of Anne Schlumberger, Houston, Texas, acquired directly from Diego Giacometti, 1974

Thence by descent to the present owners

"Magie de la Lumière," Art et Industrie, no. 3, 1946, p. 34

Michel Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1985, pp. 95 and 141

Diego Giacometti, exh. cat., Galerie L'Arc en Seine, Paris, 2003, p. 41

Christian Boutonnet and Rafael Montanez Ortiz, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 2003, p. 41

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 2006, p. 347

L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti: Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007, p. 409

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco Period, New York, 2008, p. 257

Les Giacometti, une famille de créateurs, exh. cat., Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, 2021, p. 192

This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti and is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database.