Alberto Giacometti

"Étoile" Table Lamp

Import Tariff

Auction Closed

April 22, 07:10 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters

Alberto Giacometti

"Étoile" Table Lamp

designed circa 1935, executed at a later date by Diego Giacometti

patinated bronze, paper shade

impressed DIEGO and monogrammed DG

15 ⅞ in. (40.3 cm) high, excluding fittings

Galerie L'Arc en Seine, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owners

"Le 32e Salon des Artistes Décorateurs," Art et Décoration, no. 2, 1946, p. 89

"Le Salon des Artistes Décorateurs," Plaisir de France, August, 1946, p. 13

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1980, p. 200

Françoise Francisci, Catalogue de l'œuvre de Diego Giacometti, vol. 1, Paris, 1986, p. 32

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, p. 244

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, p. 347

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

Because this lot was imported into the United States after April 5th, 2025, it is subject to an import tariff based on the value declared upon entry into the United States. The cost of the tariff, $13,900, plus applicable sales tax will be included on your invoice unless you instruct Sotheby's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address. For more information on the import tariff, please review the Symbol Key in the back of the catalogue.