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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 23, 2010 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 36 | $****** - ****** | Figure grise (Tête en gris) |
paintings
65 x 54 cm (25.59 x 21.26 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Alberto Giacometti 1957' (lower right)
Galerie Maeght, Paris, by 1961. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (no. 8218). Claude Berri, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 4 June 1999.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Arp to Vlaminck, October - December 1961, no. 19. Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, February - March 1963. New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Picasso to Pollock, March - April 1964, no. 20. London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings, 1913-1965, July - August 1965, no. 56 (illustrated). New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Giacometti - Dubuffet, November 1968, no. 20. Pennsylvania, State University Museum of Art, Three Swiss Painters. Cuno Amiet, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, November - December 1973; this exhibition later travelled to Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, January - February 1974 and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Bush-Reisinger Museum, February - March 1974. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, April - June 1974, no. 134 (illustrated p. 143). New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings; Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Alberto Giacometti, January 1976, no. 23 (illustrated). New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 20th Century European Masters, December - January 1986, no. 22. Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, The Giacomettis, April - June 1987, no. 77 (illustrated p. 40); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fondació Joan Miró, September - November 1987. New York, Sidney Janis gallery, 20th Century Masters, November - December 1997, no. 33.
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1971, p. 307 (illustrated p. 163). Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, no. 412, p. 426 (illustrated p. 430). The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 928. The Alberto and Annette Giacometti Association Database, no. P-2010-1.
