LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

10

Description:

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Literature:

Exh. Cat., New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Giacometti, 1961, (probably) no. 8; another cast listed; Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alberto Giacometti, 1962-63, another cast listed; Exh. Cat.,New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & travelling to the United Stated and Canada, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition,1974-75, no. 101,p. 119,illustration of another cast; Exh. Cat.,New York,The American Federation of Arts, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor and Draftsman,1977, no. 10, illustration of another cast; Reinhold Hohl, ed., Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, p. 179, illustration of another cast in a Kunsthaus retrospective installation image; The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. AGD 3639, illustrated (https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/en/database/182921/head-of-a-man)

Provenance:

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired directly from the artist); Private Collection, Paris; Staempfli Gallery, New York; Private Collection, North America (acquired from the above on 18 May 1962); Christies New York, November 16, 2016, lot 17B (consigned by the above); Acquiredat the above sale by the present owner