View full screen - View 1 of Lot 7. La Clairière (Composition avec neuf figures).

A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Alberto Giacometti

La Clairière (Composition avec neuf figures)

Estimate

18,000,000 - 25,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Alberto Giacometti

(1901 - 1966)


La Clairière (Composition avec neuf figures)

inscribed Alberto Giacometti, numbered 6/6 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris 

bronze

23 ⅝ by 25 ¾ by 20 ⅜ in.   

60 by 65.5 by 51.7 cm.

Conceived in 1950; this example cast in 1960.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4784.

Galerie Maeght, Paris 

Leigh B. and Mary Lasker Block, Chicago and Santa Barbara (acquired from the above in 1964)

Sotheby’s, New York, 20 May 1981, lot 347 (consigned by the above) 

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Giacometti 1901-1966, 1988-89, no. 49, pp. 150-51, illustrated 

Palma Bucarelli, Alberto Giacometti, Rome, 1962, p. 43, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Alberto Giacometti, 1963, n.p., illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings 1913-65, 1965, pl. 23, illustration of another cast 

Mario Negri and Antoine Terrasse, Giacometti sculptures, Paris, 1969, pl. VIII, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Alberto Giacometti, 1969-70, p. 67, illustration of another cast 

Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Geneva, 1970, p. 81, illustration of another cast; p. 83 

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1971, p. 307, pl. 125, illustrations of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1971, p. 136, illustration of another cast Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974, p. 95, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Thirteen Bronzes, Alberto Giacometti, 1977, pp. 28-29, illustration in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Alberto Giacometti, 1978, pl. 56, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery; City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and London, Serpentine Gallery, Giacometti: Sculptures Paintings Drawings, 1981, p. 28, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti Exposition au Japon, 1983, pl. 19, illustration in color of another cast 

Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, no. 188, p. 134, illustration of another cast 

James Lord, Giacometti, A Biography, 1985, New York, pp. 314, 329, 335 

Juliet Charles Hazen, Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 72, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Alberto Giacometti, 1986, pp. 78, 271 and on the cover, illustrations in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Giovanni, Augusto, Alberto, Diego Giacometti, 1987, p. 84, illustration of another cast; p. 170 

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, 1987-88, pp. 81 and 93, illustrations of another cast Exh. Cat., Castello di Rivoli, Alberto Giacometti, 1988-89, no. 68, p. 132, illustration of another cast  

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Alberto Giacometti—dibujo, escultura, pintura, 1990‐91, pp. 85 and 471, illustrations in color of another cast

Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, no. 323, p. 350, illustration in color of another cast 

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1991, p. 5, illustration of another cast 

Giorgio Soavi and Peter Knapp, Giacometti, la ressemblance impossible, Milan, 1991, pp. 112-13, illustration in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Alberto Giacometti, sculptures, peintures, dessins, 1991-92, no. 128, p. 227, illustration of another cast 

Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, New York, 1994, pl. 59, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Ravenna, Loggetta Lombardesca, Alberto Giacometti, 2004-05, p. 181, illustration in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., New York, PaceWildenstein and Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, The Women of Giacometti, 2005-06, pp. 68-69, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti: The Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, 2007-08, p. 359, illustration in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Geneva, Musée Rath, Alberto Giacometti, 2009-10, p. 176, illustration in color of another cast

Joseph Manca, Patrick Bade and Sarah Costello, 1000 Sculptures de Génie, New York, 2014, no. 892, p. 446, illustration in color of another cast; p. 504

Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, In Search of the Absolute, 2016, pp. 15, 19, 20, 136, illustration in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, Giacometti, 2017, p. 228, illustration in color of another cast 

Catherine Grenier, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography, Paris, 2018, p. 197 

Exh. Cat., Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Alberto Giacometti, une retrospective. Le Réel merveilleux, 2021, p. 200, illustration in color of another cast 

Exh. Cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure, 2022-23, p. 172, illustration in color of another cast