Important Design

Alberto Giacometti

Étoile floor lamp

Artist's Resale Right

Auction Closed

May 28, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Alberto Giacometti

Étoile floor lamp

Designed circa 1936

Patinated bronze and fabric lampshade

Signed Giacometti on a foot

Height without shade: 148 cm ; 58 ¼ in.

Bernard and Jacqueline Gheerbrant collection, Paris

Then by descent to the present owner

Private collection, France

Michel Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 142

Françoise Francisci, Diego Giacometti, Catalogue de l'oeuvre, Paris, 1986, p. 31

Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 11

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, p. 170 and 250

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 2006, p. 347

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 4810

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