ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Lot 27
06.06.2022 14:00UTC -05:00
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ID 773561
Lot 27 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
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$ 70 000 – 90 000
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

'Bougeoir' Table Lamp, circa 1937

patinated bronze, leather, fabric shade

13 3⁄8 in. (34 cm) high, 4 3⁄4 in. (12 cm) diameter (excluding shade)

monogrammed and numbered AG 08





Provenance

Félix and Yvonne Goudard, for their apartment decorated by Jean-Michel Frank, 39 Boulevard de Montmorency, Paris, 1936

Thence by descent

Ader, Paris, 1 December 2017, lot 64

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

M. Butor, Diego, Paris, 1985, p. 149

C. Boutonnet and R. Ortiz, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 2003, p. 36

L. D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank. Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1980, p. 45 (the model in Nelson Rockefeller's living room, New York)

L. D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, p. 45

F. Baudot, J.M. Frank. Universe of style, Paris, 1999, pp. 58-59 and 79

Jean-Michel Frank, Un décorateur dans le Paris des années 30, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, p. 67 (the model in Nelson Rockefeller's living room, New York)

L. Verchère et. al., Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 2018, pp. 268-269 (for the model in Nelson Rockefeller's living room, New York)





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