Lot 21
  • 21

Alberto Giacometti

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Alberto Giacometti
  • La suspension
  • firmato e datato 1963
  • penna a sfera blu su carta
  • cm 49x31,5

Provenance

Acquisito direttamente dall'artista

Exhibited

Roma, Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Alberto Giacometti, 1970, n. 36, illustrato
Lugano, Museo Civico di Belle Arti Villa Ciani, Giacometti, 1973, n. 114, non illustrato
Milano, Palazzo Reale, Alberto Giacometti. Sculture Dipinti Disegni, 1995, n. 85, pag. 247, illustrato
Bologna, Museo Morandi, Alberto Giacometti. Disegni, sculture e opere grafiche, 1999, n. 63, pag. 135, illustrato
Milano, Fondazione Mazzotta, I Giacometti, la valle, il mondo, 2000, pag. 230,n.n., illustrato
Parigi, Centre Pompidou, Alberto Giacometti: le dessin à l'oeuvre, 2001, n. 172, pag. 244, illustrato a pag. 205
Sondrio, Museo Valtellinese di Storia e Arte, Palazzo Sassi de' Lavizzari, Alberto Giacometti. Percorsi Lombardi, 2005, n. 51, pag. [230], illustrato a colori

Literature

G. Soavi, Protagonisti. Giacometti. Sutherland. De Chirico, Milano 1969, pag. 81, illustrato
G. Soavi, Disegni di Giacometti, Milano-Roma, 1973, pag. 53, illustrato
G. Soavi, Dessins de Giacometti, Roma 1980, illustrato a colori

Condition

This lot appears to be in generally good overall condition. The paper is sligtly waved and it is uniformly yellowish than in the catalogue illustration. here are minor traces of dirt by the centre of left margin, also visible in the catalogue illustration. By the lower left margin there is a small marginal fold with a minor soiling. By the right margin to the centre there are two minor dorts of dirt, meanwhile it is not present a dot of soiling in the inner section.
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Catalogue Note

"Anche il lume mi ricordava tante cose. Per esempio, quando lui diceva di sentirsi lombardo. Voglio dire che il lume somiglia a quello dei miei nonni e sotto quel lume, in loro compagnia, avevo giocato le prime interminabili partite a tombola, sbucciato qualche mandarino o frutta secca durante i lunghi inverni lombardi.... (...) A Stampa guardavo affascinato quel lume che, per me, è come l'inizio della Recherche".
G. Soavi, Il mio Giacometti ne Alberto Giacometti. Il sogno in una testa, Milano 2000