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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Alberto Giacometti

Buste de Diego

Estimate

3,500,000 - 4,500,000 USD

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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Alberto Giacometti

(1901 - 1966)


Buste de Diego

inscribed A. Giacometti, numbered 4/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris

bronze

height: 14 ½ in.   37 cm.

Conceived circa 1956 and cast between 1957-59. 


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4762.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Harriet Weiner Goodstein, New York (acquired from the above in 1960)

Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1994, lot 53 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., London, Hanover Gallery, Giacometti, Marini, Matisse, Moore, 1958, no. 7, illustration of another cast

Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 279, illustration of the plaster in its original state (titled Tête and dated 1957)

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Verzameling Ella Winter, 1961-62, n.p., illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti. Sculpture Paintings Drawings 1913-1965, 1965, no. 68 (titled Head and Shoulders and dated 1957)

David Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, London, 1994, pp. 77-79, illustration of the plaster in a later state (in a 1966 photograph of the artist's studio)

Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti–Sculpture in Plaster, Zurich and Frankfurt, 2006, p. 84, illustration of the plaster in its original state; p. 112

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, The Studio of Alberto Giacometti, 2007-08, no. 215, p. 406, illustration of the plaster in a later state

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti – Au-delà des bronzes, 2016-17, fig. 119, p. 151, illustration in color of the plaster in a later state

London, Tate Modern, Giacometti, 2017, p. 256, illustration in color of the plaster in a later state; p. 295

Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, Alberto Giacometti, 2018, n.p., illustration in color of the plaster in a later state

Exh. Cat., Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Alberto Giacometti, a retrospective. Marvelous reality, 2021, pp. 88-89, illustrations in color of the plaster in a later state

Exh. Cat., Paris, Institut Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti / Ali Cherri: Envisagement, 2024, p. 72, illustration in color of the plaster in a later state; p. 105, illustration of the plaster in a later state (in photograph of the work in storage)