ID 1306058
Lot 168 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
Tête et buste d'hommes
signed ‘Alberto Giacometti.’ (lower right)
pencil on paper laid down on card
10 ¼ x 6 3/8 in. (26.1 x 16.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1950
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland, by 1986.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in 2013.
Literature
P. de Vries, Alberto Giacometti and the Perception of Reality, Berlin, 2019, no. 5, pp. 110-112 & 208 (illustrated p. 111; titled 'Study for a Portrait (Two Heads)').
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4644.
| Artist: | Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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