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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

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13.04.2022 16:00UTC +02:00
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ID 740445
Lot 10 | Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)Petite tête de Marie-Laure de Noailles sur socleplâtre12.1 x 5 x 5.3 cm.Conçu et exécuté vers 1946; cette œuvre est unique plaster 4 7⁄8 x 2 x 2 1⁄8 in.Conceived and executed circa 1946; this work is unique Provenance Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquis auprès de l’artiste).Pierre Matisse, New York.Puis par descendance. Literature B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 78 (la version en bronze illustrée, fig. 112). Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Biographie d'une œuvre, Paris, 1991, p. 284, no. 258 (la version en bronze illustrée). A. Schneider, éd., Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, New York, 1994, no. 43 (la version en bronze illustrée). S. Nordgen, Alberto Giacometti, Skulpturer, Mälningar, Teckningar, Stockholm, 1994, p. 95 et 221 (une autre version illustrée, p. 95).T. Mathews, Alberto Giacometti, The Art of Relation, Londres, 2014, p. 120, no. 20 (la version en bronze illustrée).Base de données de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, no. AGD 4409. Special notice Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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