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Property from an Important European Collection

Alberto Giacometti

Buste de Diego au col roulé

Auction Closed

June 27, 06:01 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European Collection

Alberto Giacometti

1901 - 1966


Buste de Diego au col roulé

painted bronze 

height: 34 cm. 13⅜ in.

Conceived in 1951 and cast circa 1951. This work is unique. 


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重要歐洲收藏

阿爾伯托・賈柯梅蒂

1901 - 1966 年


《穿高領毛衣的迪亞哥半身像》

著色青銅

高:34 公分;13⅜ 英寸

1951年構思及鑄造,本作獨一無二

Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Adrien and Paulette Maeght, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s, New York, 11 November 1997, lot 163 (consigned by the above)
Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired from the above sale)
Christie’s, New York, 4 November 2013, lot 15 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection
Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Switzerland
Lévy Gorvy, New York
Private Collection
LGDR, New York, London and Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Cahiers d'Art, 1951, p. 90, illustrated
Ernst Scheidegger, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen, Zurich, 1958, p. 84, plaster illustrated
Palma Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, no. 54, illustrated (titled Buste de son frère Diego and dated 1953)
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, no. 214, p. 150, illustrated in colour (titled Buste de Diego and dated 1954)
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, no. 422, p. 440, illustrated 
Exh. Cat., Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum and Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Alberto Giacometti: The Origin of Space, 2011, fig. 6, p. 188, illustrated in colour (titled Bust Diego)
Alberto Giacometti Database, no. AGD-2772, https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/fr/database/167315/buste-de-diego-au-col-roule  
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Alberto Giacometti, 1978, no. 70, p. 190 (dated 1952-53)
Saint-Étienne, France, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Alberto Giacometti, 1981, no. 4, p. 14, illustrated (as no. 5) (dated 1952-53)
Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art; Sendai, Miagi Museum of Art; Gifu, Museum of Fine
Arts; Kurashiki, Ohara Museum of Art and Yokohama, Municipal Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, 1983-84, no. 26, p. 41, illustrated in colour (dated 1952-53)
Paris, Galerie Adrien Maeght, Alberto Giacometti. Plâtres peintes, 1984, illustrated in colour
Zürich, Galerie Scheidegger, Giacometti, 1985
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo and Barcelona, Fondation Miró, Giacometti: Giovanni 1868–1933, Augusto 1877–1947, Alberto 1901–1966, Diego 1902–1985, 1987, no. 41 (Mexico), no. 50 (Barcelona), illustrated
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Quatrième triénnale, 1989, p. 74
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Dimension: Petit. L’art Suisse entre petite sculpture et objet d’Alberto Giacometti à nos jours, 1989, p. 74, illustrated (dated 1953-54)
Brussels, Espace 251 Nord, Le Jardin de la Vierge, 1993
Amiens, Musée de Picardie, Le Musée et les Modernes, 1994
Vienna, Kunsthalle, Alberto Giacometti, 1996, no. 195
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, Alberto Giacometti, no. 139, pl. 45, illustrated in colour and p. 167, illustrated (titled Buste de Diego)
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Alberto Giacometti, 1997, no. 83, p. 141, illustrated in colour (titled Büste Diego)
Davos, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld: Bern-Davos, 1998, no. 114
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett-Sammlung der Zeichningen und Druckgraphik, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 187, p. 391, illustrated in colour
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo: Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Colección Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 219, pp. 472-73, illustrated in colour
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, 2001-02, no. 138, p. 278, illustrated (titled Buste de Diego)
Vienna, Albertina Museum and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Maria Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005-07, no. 166, pp. 380-81, illustrated in colour (Vienna); no. 219, pp. 454-55, illustrated in colour (Munich)