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A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Diego Giacometti

"Autruche"

Auction Closed

May 20, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Diego Giacometti

(1902-1985)


"Autruche"

impressed DIEGO and monogrammed DG

patinated bronze, ostrich egg

20 ½ by 6 ¼ by 10 ½ in.

52.1 by 15.9 by 26.7 cm.

Designed circa 1977.


This work is authenticated in accordance with the process established by the Diego Giacometti Estate.

Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1987, lot 242

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Françoise Francisci, Diego Giacometti, Catalogue de l'oeuvre, Paris, 1985, p. 20

Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 124

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Museum Bellerive, Diego Giacometti, Möbel und Objekte aus Bronze, 1988, p. 89

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie L'Arc en Seine, Diego Giacometti, 2003, p. 95

Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Sculpteur de meubles, Paris, 2018, pp. 122-123 and 125