ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

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Lot 16 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Figure I, petite

signed and numbered ‘Giacometti 1⁄6’ (on top of the base)

bronze with dark brown patina

15 7⁄8 x 4 1⁄8 x 4 1⁄8 in. (40.4 x 10.2 x 10.3 cm.)

Conceived in 1947, cast between 1947-1948 in a numbered edition of six





Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

Private collection.

Galerie Krugier et Cie, Geneva.

Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1963 and thence by descent.



Literature

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4590.



Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Exhibition of sculptures, paintings, drawings, January - February 1948, no. 25.

Geneva, Galerie Krugier et Cie, Alberto Giacometti, May - July 1963, no. 24 (titled ‘Annette’).
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