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Alberto Giacometti

Femme, épaule cassée [troisième version]

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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