Alberto Giacometti

"Grecque" Table Lamp, Grand Modèle

Import Tariff

Auction Closed

April 22, 07:10 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg: Design Masters

Alberto Giacometti

"Grecque" Table Lamp, Grand Modèle

circa 1937

terra cotta, parchment shade

17 ⅞ in. (45.4 cm) high, excluding fittings

15 ½ in. (39.4 cm) diameter of shade

Please note the correct material for this object is terra cotta.

Collection of Edward James, Sussex, United Kingdom

The Edward James Foundation, Sussex, United Kingdom

Galerie L'Arc en Seine, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1996

"Exégèse Poétique de Jean-Michel Frank," Art et Décoration, no. 1, 1939, p. 6

"L'Œuvre de Jean-Michel Frank," Art et Industrie, no. 1, November 1945, p. 19 (for a related example)

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, p. 167

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, pp. 45 and 149

Jean-Michel Frank, Un décorateur dans le Paris des années 30, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, p. 66 (for a related example)

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, $24,325, 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.