ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Lot 108
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Lot 108 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Applique modèle "masque aux serpents", version B

stamped with initials and numbered 'AG06' (on the rim)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.)

Width: 9 1/4 in. (23.6 cm.)

Conceived circa 1934





Provenance

Diego Giacometti, Paris.

James Lord, Paris.

Private collection, Switzerland.

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 October 1998, lot 62.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

F. Francisci, Diego Giacometti: Catalogue de l'œuvre, Paris, 1986, vol. I (another cast illustrated, pl. 35; titled Tête de gorgonne II).

L.D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, p. 29 (plaster illustrated in situ in Frank and Chanaux’s workshop).

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4479.



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