Alberto Giacometti

Buste d’homme (New York II)

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Lot Details

Description

Alberto Giacometti

1901 - 1966

Buste d’homme (New York II)

inscribed Alberto Giacometti, numbered 6/8 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris; stamped Susse Fondeur Paris Cire Perdue (on the underside)

bronze

height: 46.6 cm. 18⅜ in.

Conceived in 1965; this example cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris in 1972. This work is number 6 from an edition of 8.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti Database as AGD 4786.

Annette Giacometti, Paris

Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (acquired from the above; owned jointly with Ernst Beyeler, Basel)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1989

London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Alberto Giacometti: Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures, 1989, no. 26, n.p., illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Alberto Giacometti, 1970, no. 118, p. 87, plaster illustrated; p. 153 (titled Buste d’homme and incorrectly catalogued)

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1971, no. 66, p. 269, plaster illustrated; p. 295, another cast illustrated

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, London, 1972, p. 269, plaster illustrated

Herbert Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, pp. 173, 184 and 185, another cast illustrated

Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, p. 527, plaster illustrated

Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, New York, 1994, pl. 153, another cast illustrated (titled Bust of a Man (Diego) New York II)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti, 2007-08, no. 268, n.p., plaster illustrated (titled [Buste d’homme, dit New York I])