Femme, épaule cassée [troisième version]
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
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Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Femme, épaule cassée [troisième version]
signed A. Giacometti, numbered 5/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fd. Paris
bronze
height: 68.5 cm. 27 in.
Conceived circa 1958-59; this example cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris in 1964. This work is number 5 from an edition of 6.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4298.
Formerly in the collection of Josef and Lea Steegmann.
(possibly) Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Robert Elkon, New York
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on 2 February 1966)
Josef and Lea Steegmann, Vaduz (acquired from the above on 14 December 1967)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, 27 November 1989, lot 30 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Jean Genet, Alberto Giacometti, Zurich, 1962, p. 10, plaster illustrated in the artist's studio
Marcel Joray, La sculpture moderne en Suisse III 1959 à 1966, Neuchâtel, 1967, no. 311, n.p., plaster illustrated
Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1971, no. 254, p. 308, another version illustrated (titled Femme à l’épaule cassée)
Tamara S. Evans, ed., Alberto Giacometti and America, New York, 1984, p. 113
Charles Juliet, Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 36, plaster illustrated in the artist's studio
Herbert Matter and Mercedes Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, n.n., n.p., plaster illustrated; p. 136, plaster illustrated in colour
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Picasso, Klee, Giacometti: The Steegmann Collection, 1998-99, no. 35, p. 137, illustrated in colour; p. 179
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