ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

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Lot 11 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Homme (Apollon)

signed, dated and numbered 'Alberto Giacometti 1929 4/6' (on the back)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 15 1/2 in. (39.3 cm.)

Length: 11 3/4 in. (30 cm.)

Conceived in 1929 and cast in 1954





Provenance

Pierre Matisse, New York.

By descent from the above to the present owner.



Literature

M. Leiris, "Alberto Giacometti" in Documents, no. 4, September 1929, pp. 210 and 214 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 214).

P. Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, p. 75, no. 11 (another cast illustrated, p. 95).

J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 201 (plaster version illustrated).

H. Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture, New York, 1964, p. 293, no. 140 (another cast illustrated, p. 143).

G. Régnier, "Alberto Giacometti" in La Revue du Louvre, vol. 19, no. I, 1969, p. 292.

C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1970, p. 124 (another cast illustrated, p. 28).

R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart, 1971, pp. 79 and 307 (another cast illustrated, p. 52).

M. Brenson, The Early Work of Alberto Giacometti: 1925-1935, Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974, pp. 45, 47, 67, 117, 139, 159, 175 and 233-234 (plaster version illustrated, fig. 25).

R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1974, pp. 20 and 60, no. 19 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).

B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 44, no. 61 (another cast illustrated).

C. Juliet, Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 20 (another cast illustrated).

P. Beye and D. Honisch, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1987, pp. 59-60 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).

V. Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1988, pp. 24 and 84, no. 11 (another cast illustrated, p. 85).

K.M. de Barañano, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1990, pp. 54 and 378, no. 156 (another cast illustrated, p. 379).

C. Klemm, Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Zurich, 1990, pp. 67 and 153-154, no. 22 (another cast illustrated, p. 67).

Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, p. 163, no. 156 (plaster version illustrated, p. 164).

S. Pagé, Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, peintures, dessins, exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1991, p. 132, no. 44 (another cast illustrated).

A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, New York, 1994, pp. 55-56 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 15; other casts illustrated, p. 57 and pl. 17).

D. Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, New York, 1994, p. 42.

T. Stooss and P. Elliott, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 145, no. 64 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 14, fig. 10; another cast illustrated, p. 145).

C. Klemm, et al., Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001, pp. 18, 74 and 268, no. 29 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 19, fig. 5; plaster version illustrated, p. 75; another cast illustrated, p. 268).

L. Wilson, Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man, New Haven, 2003, pp. 28 and 98 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 98, fig. 5.1).

A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews, Barcelona, 2006, pp. 26 and 28-29 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 32).

M. Fontanella and K.P.B. Vail, eds., Giacometti, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018, pp. 27 and 60 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4461.



Exhibited

New York, Yoshii Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Early Works in Paris, 1922-1930, April-June 1994, pp. 56 and 131 (illustrated, pl. 8; plaster version illustrated in situ in the Documents Marc Vaux 1929 photograph, p. 57, fig. 45).
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