Alberto Giacometti

Masque aux serpents wall-sconce

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Auction Closed

May 28, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Alberto Giacometti

Masque aux serpents wall-sconce

Designed in 1934

Patinated bronze

24,5 x 23,5 x 17,5 cm ; 9 ¾ x 9 ¼ x 6 ⅞ in.

Edmond Bomsel collection, Paris, acquired directly from the artist

Thence by descent

Private collection, Paris, gifted from the above

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2003, lot 159

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Collection privée, Londres

Françoise Francisci, Diego Giacometti : catalogue de l’œuvre, Paris, 1986, n.p

Giovanni, Augusto, Alberto, Diego, Bruno Giacometti : une famille de créateurs, exhibition catalogue, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, 3 July – 14 November 2021, p. 186

This lot is sold with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti and is recorded in the database of the Fondation Giacometti, the Alberto Giacometti Database, under the number AGD 4806

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