
Of Form & Color: Art & Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection
"Étoile" Floor Lamp
Auction Closed
June 10, 06:51 PM GMT
Estimate
175,000 - 225,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Of Form & Color: Art & Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection
Alberto Giacometti
"Étoile" Floor Lamp
designed circa 1936
patinated bronze, fabric shade
base impressed 021
58 ½ in. (147 cm) high, excluding fittings
Walter Hadorn, Bern, Switzerland
Thence by descent
Dorotheum, Vienna, Design First, June 20, 2017, lot 18
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1980, pp. 164 and 204
Michel Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 142
Françoise Francisci, Diego Giacometti, Catalogue de l'oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1986, p. 31
Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 11
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, pp. 170 and 250
François Baudot, Diego Giacometti, New York, 2001, p. 42
Christian Boutonnet and Rafael Ortiz, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 2003, pp. 38-39
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, l’étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, p. 347
Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti: Sculpteur de meubles, Paris, 2018, p. 30
This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti and is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database.