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Artist |
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Alberto Giacometti |
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Title |
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L'homme qui chavire
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Medium |
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painted bronze |
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Size |
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23.3 x 0 in. / 59.3 x 0 cm. |
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Year |
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1950 - |
Printing/
Casting |
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1951 |
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Description |
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Conceived in 1950 and cast in 1951.
Inscribed with the signature A. Giacometti and with foundry mark Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris, and numbered 5/6
Painted bronze
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Giacometti Committee working under the authority of the artist's moral right and will be published in the catalogue raisonné prepared by the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti.
The authenticity of this work has also been confirmed by Mary Lisa Palmer |
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Edition |
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5/6 |
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Found./Pub. |
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Alexis Rudier ed. |
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Misc. |
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Signed, Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
[Lot 10]
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Galerie Maeght, Paris
Count d'Arschot, Belgium
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Private Collection, Switzerland
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above
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Exhibition |
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New York, Gagosian Gallery, Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers, Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, 2008, illustrated in color in the catalogue
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Literature |
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A. Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1950, illustration of another cast p. 22
Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, illustration of another cast p. 249
Raoul-Jean Moulin, Giacometti Sculpture, London, 1964, illustration of another cast pl. 7 and on the cover
Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1971, illustration of another cast p. 253
Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1978, no. 60, illustration of another cast p. 92
Charles Juliet, Giacometti, New York, 1986, illustration of another cast p. 69
Andre Kuenzi, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1986, no. 102, illustration of another cast p. 270
Alberto Giacometti Skulpturen-Gemälde (exhibition catalogue), Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 1987-88, no. 96, illustration of another cast p. 215
Mercedes Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 77
Herbert and Mercedes Matter, Giacometti, New York, 1988, pp. 90-91, illustration of another cast
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1990, illustration of another cast p. 77
Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1990, cat. no. 19, p. 46, illustrated in color and p. 47, illustration of another cast
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, illustration of another cast p. 327
Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1991-92, no. 122, illustration of another cast p. 219
Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Munich, 1994, illustration of another cast pl. 62
Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966 (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthalle, Vienna & Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1996, no. 134, illustration of another cast p. 166
Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York & Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2001-02, no. 126, illustration of another cast p. 186
Ángel González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews, Barcelona, 2006, illustrated p. 111
Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, 2009, no. 92, illustration of another cast p. 109
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