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Artist |
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Alberto Giacometti |
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Title |
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Grande femme debout II
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Medium |
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bronze with brown patina |
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Size |
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107.9 x 0 in. / 274 x 0 cm. |
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Year |
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1959 - 1960 |
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Description |
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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Grande femme debout II
signed, numbered... |
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Edition |
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1/6 |
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Misc. |
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Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
[Lot 36]
Impressionist And Modern Art Evening Sale
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (by 1961).
The Lambert Collection; sale, Christie's, New York, 12 May 1987, lot 20.
Private collection, United States (acquired at the above sale).
The Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1991).
Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 9 December 1993
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Exhibition |
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New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Alberto Giacometti Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, December 1961
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Literature |
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J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1963, p. 290 (another cast illustrated).
"Searching for a Kernel of life," in Newsweek, 14 June 1965, p. 946 (another case illustrated).
P. Selz, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1965, p. 72 (another cast illustrated).
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart, 1971, p. 309 (another cast illustrated, p. 260).
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 112, no. 157 (another cast illustrated).
B. Rose, "Modern at its Meridian," in House and Garden, July 1986, vol. 158, no. 7, p. 32 (another cast illustrated in color).
M. Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, p. 220 (another cast illustrated, p. 151; another cast illustrated again, p. 157).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Biographie d'une oeuvre, Paris, 1991, p. 407, no. 386 (another cast illustrated).
A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Munich and New York, 1994, no. 120 (another cast illustrated).
A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews, Barcelona, 2006, p. 118 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 119)
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