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Alberto Giacometti
Figure, dite cubiste I, 1926
10yr Price history
$1,934,733
$****** - ******
Alberto Giacometti
Figure, dite cubiste I
10yr Price history
$1,934,733
$****** - ******
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Past Sales
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
Jun 25, 2024Figure, dite cubiste I2
Sotheby'sLondon
May 14, 1997Composition cubiste, Homme
Sotheby'sNew York
Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

62.9 cm (24.76 in)

Materials

bronze

Signature

inscribed Alberto Giacometti , numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE

Provenance

Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired by circa 1962-65)

Private Collection, Switzerland

Artcurial, Paris (acquired by 1991 and until at least 1996)

Sotheby"s, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 208

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie"s, London, 20 June 2006, lot 139 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Giacometti: skulpturer, malerier, tegninger , 1965, no. 5

Paris, Artcurial, Corps-Figures. La figuration humaine dans la sculpture du XXe siècle , 1989, p. 105, illustrated in colour (titled Composition cubiste. Homme and dated 1926-27)

Paris, Musée d"Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alberto Giacometti , sculptures, peintures, dessins , 1991-92, no. 26, p. 109, illustrated in colour (titled Composition cubiste (homme) and dated 1926-27)

Paris, Artcurial, Consonances peinture-sculpture: choix pour une collection , 1993, illustrated

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Alberto Giacometti: Sculture, Dipinti, Disegni , 1995, no. 6, p. 103, illustrated (titled Composition cubiste (Homme) and dated 1926)

Kunsthalle Vienna and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966 , 1996, no. 44, p. 139, illustrated in colour (titled Homme (Composition cubiste) and dated circa 1926-27)

Literature

“Alberto Giacometti,” Louisiana Revy , no. 1, September 1965, p. 6, illustrated

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Teufen, 1971, no. 44, p. 306, illustration of another cast (titled Composition cubiste (Homme) and dated 1926)

Fondation Maeght, ed., Sculpture du XXe siècle , Saint Paul de Vence, 1981, no. 88, p. 113, illustration of another cast; p. 116 (text) (titled Composition cubiste and dated 1927)

Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1984, no. 47, p. 36, illustration of another cast (titled Composition cubiste and dated 1926-27)

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Alberto Giacometti, Skulpturen-Gemälde-Zeichnungen-Graphik , 1987, p. 56, illustration of another cast

Karin von Maur, Alberto Giacometti , Berlin, 1987, p. 56, illustration of another cast

Ernst Scheidegger, Spuren einer Freundschaft , Zurich, 1990, p. 27

Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Biographie d"une œuvre , Lausanne, 1991, no. 132, p. 141, illustration of another cast (titled Composition cubiste and dated 1926-27)

Casimiro Di Crescenzo, “On ne joues plus, 1932, di Alberto Giacometti,” Venezia arti , 1992, no. 43, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Yoshii Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Early Works in Paris (1922-1930) , 1994, p. 44, fig. 35, illustration of another version (titled Composition cubiste (Homme) and dated 1926)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, The Studio of Alberto Giacometti: The Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti , 2007, nos. 68-69, p. 82, illustrations of the plaster

Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti. Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings , Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2008, p. 54, illustration of another cast (titled Cubist Composition - Man and dated 1926-27)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate, Giacometti , 2017, p. 137, illustration in colour of the plaster

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Giacometti, Giacometti: À la recherche des œuvres disparues (1920-1935) , 2020, p. 48, illustration in colour of the plaster

Description

Alberto Giacometti

1901 - 1966

Figure, dite cubiste I

inscribed Alberto Giacometti , numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE

bronze

height: 62.9 cm. 24¾ in.

Conceived circa 1926; this example cast in bronze by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris, circa 1962-65. This work is number 2 from an edition of 6.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4632.

Figure, dite cubiste I by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

Figure, dite cubiste I, 1926

Bronze
Sculpture
Edition of 6
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
3.2%
CAGR
**%
Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, London (25 Jun 2024)
$******
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