Alberto Giacometti

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired directly from the artist and on loan to the Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1964-80)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on 12 September 1980)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner 

Jacques Dupin, “Giacometti Sculpteur & Peintre,” Cahiers d’Art, no. 1, October 1954, p. 47, illustration of the plaster (titled Tête)

Exh. Cat., London, Arts Council Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, 1955, no. 35 (titled Grande tête tranchante)

Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, 1962, pp. 268-69, illustrations of another cast (titled Grande tête and dated 1954-55)

Palma Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, pl. 57, illustration of another cast (titled Busto di Diego in Sweater)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti, 1962-63, no. 57, pl. 13, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Alberto Giacometti, 1963, n.p., illustration of another cast

Jean Genet, L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti, 1963, n.p., illustration of another cast

Raoul-Jean Moulin, Giacometti, Sculptures, New York, 1964, no. 12, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, 1965, pp. 52-53, illustrations in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings 1913-65, 1965, pl. 24, illustration of another cast (titled Large Slicing Head)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Basel, Alberto Giacometti, 1966, no. 71

Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Giacometti & Dubuffet, 1968, illustration of another cast on the cover

Franz Meyer, Alberto Giacometti, eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit, 1968, Stuttgart, p. 181

Mario Negri and Antoine Terrasse, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptures, 1969, pl. XIII, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Alberto Giacometti, 1969-70, p. 75, illustration of another cast

Willy Rotzler and Marianne Adelmann, Alberto Giacometti, Bern, 1970, pl. 8, illustration of another cast

Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Zurich, 1970, p. 95, illustration of another cast

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1971, pp. 200-201, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1971, p. 157, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solmon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974, p. 100, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti Exposition au Japon, 1983, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, 1985, n.p., illustration of another cast

Charles Juliet, Giacometti, Paris, 1985, no. 93

Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Alberto Giacometti, 1986, pp. 144-45 and 273, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, 1987-88, p. 251, illustration of another cast

Herbert and Mercedes Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, pp. 97, 116-17, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti: 1901-1966, 1988-89, pp. 179-80, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Alberto Giacometti, Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures, 1989, n.p., illustrations in color of another cast

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alberto Giacometti and Tahar Ben Jelloun, Paris, 1991, p. 63, illustration of another cast

Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, no. 415, pp. 432-33, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Alberto Giacometti, sculptures, peintures, dessins, 1991-92, pp. 304-05, illustrations of another cast

Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, New York, 1994, pp. 144-45, illustrations of another cast

David Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, New York, 1994, illustration of another cast on the cover

Thierry Dufrêne, Alberto Giacometti, Les Dimensions de la Réalité, Geneva, 1994, p. 162

Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, Alberto Giacometti, Sculture, Dipinti, Disegni, 1995, pp. 83, 192 and 193, illustrations of another cast; illustration of another cast on the front cover

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland; Vienna, Kunsthalle and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, 1996-97, pl. 57, illustration of another cast in color; p. 172, illustration of another cast

Jean Soldini, Alberto Giacometti, La Somiglianza Introvabile, 1998, Milan, p. 136; pl. XXXIV, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti, 2001-02, pp. 203 and 279, illustrations of another cast

Laurie Wilson, Alberto Giacometti, Myth, Magic and the Man, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 290

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti: The Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, 2007-08, p. 405, illustration of the plaster

Exh. Cat., Geneva, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Musée Rath, Alberto Giacometti, 2009-10, p. 182, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Eykyn Maclean, In Giacometti’s Studio, An Intimate Portrait, 2010, p. 17, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Monschberg, Alberto Giacometti, The Origin of Space, 2010-11, p. 141, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, Giacometti, 2017, p. 244, illustration of another cast (titled Tall Thin Head)

Exh. Cat., Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Alberto Giacometti, une retrospective. Le Reel merveilleux, 2021, n.p., illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti, Toward the Ultimate Figure, 2022, pp. 144-45, illustrations of another cast

Venice, XXVIIIème Exposition Biennale Internationale des Beaux Artes, 1956, no. 478

Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Helsinki, Amos Anderson Museum; Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Oslo, Sonja Henie and Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Giacometti Collection of the Fundación Maeght, 1976, no. 56, n.p., illustrated

Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Alberto Giacometti, Plastiken, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, 1977, no. 29, p. 148, illustration of another cast

Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, Alberto Giacometti, 1978, no. 80, illustrated in color on the front cover

Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Alberto Giacometti ein Klassiker der Moderne 1901-1966. Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Bücher, 1978

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (on long term view 1964-80)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Giacometti Sculpture, 1993, illustrated on the cover

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Alberto Giacometti, 1994, no. 47, p. 77, illustrated in color

London, Gagosian Gallery, Alberto Giacometti Yves Klein, In Search of the Absolute, 2016, pp. 120, 131, 134 illustrated in color

New York, The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, something you cannot hold, 2024-25