
A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection
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
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