Alberto Giacometti

Têtes de face et de profil et personnages

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5,000 - 7,000 EUR

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Description

Property from a Private French Collection

Alberto Giacometti

1901-1966

Têtes de face et de profil et personnages

pencil on paper

22,5 x 28,1 cm; 8⅞ x 11 in.

Executed circa January 1947.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database under the number AGD 4527.

James Lord, Paris

Private collection, Montpellier

Farran Enchères, Montpellier, 26 May 2024, lot 41 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

These sketches have been detached from the study of Baudelaire mis à nu. L'analyse de Sartre et l'essence de la poésie, written by Georges Bataille and published in the journal Critique in January-February 1947.

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