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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Lot 120
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 620 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 839011
Lot 120 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Diego (Tête sur socle cubique)

signed and numbered 'Alberto Giacometti 6/6' (on the right of the base); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Susse Fondeur Paris’ (on the back of the base)

bronze with brown and green patina

Height: 11 7/8 in. (30.3 cm.)

Conceived in 1958 and cast in 1960





Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris (1960).

The Pace Gallery, New York (1965).

Morton and Barbara Mandel, Cleveland (acquired from the above, 29 April 1994); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 2018, lot 16M.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 277 (plaster version illustrated).

V. Wiesinger, ed., L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti: Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, exh. cat., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2007, p. 193, no. 316 (plaster version illustrated in color).

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 3903.



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