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Artist |
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Alberto Giacometti |
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Title |
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Trois hommes qui marchent I
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Medium |
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bronze |
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Size |
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28.3 x 0 in. / 72 x 0 cm. |
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Year |
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1948 - |
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Description |
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Executed in 1948 and cast in bronze in an edition of 6. This is a life-time cast.
inscribed A. Giacometti, numbered 2/6 and inscribed with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris
bronze |
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Edition |
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2/6 |
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Found./Pub. |
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A. Rudier ed. |
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Misc. |
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Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's London: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
[Lot 34]
Impressionist and 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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Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Private Collection, USA (acquired by 1951)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Eppinghoven Collection, Germany
Sale: Christie's, New York, 10th May 1994, lot 63
Purchased at the above sale by the previous owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Exhibition |
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New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture, Painting and Drawing by Alberto Giacometti, 1985, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Qu'est-ce que la sculpture moderne?, 1986, no. 208, illustrated in the catalogue
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Alberto Giacometti dibujo, escultura, pintura, 1990-91, no. 194, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Trois hommes qui marchent II)
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Literature |
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Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, illustration of another cast p. 245
Palma Bucarelli, Alberto Giacometti, Rome, 1962, illustration of another cast pl. 33 (photographed prior to the addition of the plinth)
Michel Courtois, 'La figuration magique de Giacometti', in Art International, Lugano, Summer 1962, illustration of another cast p. 39
Poul Vad, 'Giacometti', in Signum II, Copenhagen, 1962, p. 35
Raoul-Jean Moulin, Giacometti: Sculptures, New York, 1964, illustration of another cast pl. 5
Michel Ragon, 'Alberto Giacometti. Peintre et sculpteur', in Jardin des Arts, Paris, 1968, no. 158, illustration of another cast p. 7
Franz Meyer, Alberto Giacometti - Wirkung und Gestalt, Frauenfeld, 1968, pp. 158 & 160
Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1971, illustration of another cast p. 126
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, a Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, no. 305, illustration of another cast p. 333
David Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, London, 1994, illustration of another cast p. 193
Angela Schneider (ed.), Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture. Paintings. Drawings, New York, 1994, no. 53, illustration of another cast
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