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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

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Lot 5 | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Femme couchée qui rêve

signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'Alberto Giacometti 3/6 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the top of the base)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 9 1/4 in. (23.4 cm.)

Length: 16 3/4 in. (42 cm.)

Conceived in 1929 and cast in 1959





Provenance

(probably) Lawrence Rubin, New York (acquired from the artist).

Private collection, New York (probably acquired from the above, circa 1960).

Gift from the above to the present owner, circa 1993.



Literature

M. Leiris, "Alberto Giacometti" in Documents, no. 4, September 1929, pp. 210 and 213-214 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, pp. 213 and 214).

H.H. Arnason, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1962, pp. 103 and 167, no. 111 (another cast illustrated, p. 103).

P. Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, p. 75, no. 10 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929).

J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 200 (plaster version illustrated).

D. Sylvester, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1965, no. 10 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 7).

C. Adreane, "Dada and the Surrealists" in Christian Science Monitor, vol. 60, 27 April 1968, p. 9 (another cast illustrated).

F. Meyer, Alberto Giacometti, Zurich, 1968, p. 60, no. 4a (illustrated).

J. Leymarie, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1969, pp. 16 and 148, no. 17 (plaster illustrated, p. 16).

C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1970, p. 30 (another cast illustrated).

R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart, 1971, pp. 79 and 307 (another cast illustrated, p. 51).

M. Brenson, The Early Work of Alberto Giacometti: 1925-1935, Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974, pp. 46-47, 67, 116, 139, 175 and 234 (plaster version illustrated, fig. 26).

R. Hohl, ed., Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1974, pp. 20 and 59, no. 18 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).

A. Lerner et al., Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, pp. 288, 401 and 695 (another cast illustrated, p. 401).

E. Henning, The Spirit of Surrealism, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979, pp. 123 and 173, no. 72 (another cast illustrated, p. 123).

T.S. Evans, ed., Alberto Giacometti and America, New York, 1984, pp. 99, 104 and 107.

B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 39, no. 52 (another cast illustrated).

V. Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1988, pp. 24, 26 and 88, no. 13 (another cast illustrated, p. 89).

K.M. de Barañano, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1990, pp. 52, 54 and 674 (another cast illustrated, pp. 52 and 674).

C. Klemm, Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Zurich, 1990, pp. 67 and 154, no. 23 (another cast illustrated, p. 66).

Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, pp. 163 and 165, no. 157 (plaster version illustrated, p. 165).

S. Pagé, Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, peintures, dessins, exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1991, p. 130, no. 43 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 131).

A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, New York, 1994, pp. 15 and 55 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 15; another cast illustrated, p. 56 and pl. 19).

D. Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, New York, 1994, pp. 42 and 43.

T. Stooss and P. Elliott, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 144, nos. 62a and 62b (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 14, fig. 10; other casts illustrated, p. 144 and in color, p. 17).

C. Klemm, et al., Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001, pp. 19, 84 and 269, no. 33 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 19, fig. 5; another cast illustrated, p. 79).

V. Wiesinger, Alberto Giacometti au Donjon de Vez, Œuvres de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Vez, 2005, p. 18 (another cast illustrated, p. 19).

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

V. Wiesinger, L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Fondation Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 2007, pp. 98 and 113, no. 91 (another cast illustrated, p. 98).

M. Fontanella and K.P.B. Vail, eds., Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018, pp. 20 and 59, no. 18 (another cast illustrated, p. 59).

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4477.
Artist:Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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