
Property from The Schlumberger Collection
"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.
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