Alberto Giacometti

Raoul Lévy, Paris, acquired directly from the artist

Maître Ullmann, Paris

Galerie Michel Giraud, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner

René Chavance, "Le cinquième Salon des arts de la table au Musée des Arts Décoratifs," Mobilier et Décoration, July 1950, p. 24

Michel Butor and Jean Vincent, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 102

Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997, pp. 45, 164, 168-170 and 242

Christian Boutonnet and Rafael Ortiz, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 2003, p. 40 

Pierre-Emanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, pp. 92, 147, 185, 189-191 and 206

This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti and is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database.

Alberto Giacometti started to create functional and decorative objects in collaboration with his brother Diego and Parisian decorator Jean-Michel Frank at the end of the 1920s. Maintaining a sculptural quality, his patinated bronze lamps display the same expressive Surrealist qualities as his many sculptures. Frank encouraged his creations and used many of Giacometti’s lamps and decorative plasters in his commissions for various elite Parisian and New York interiors. The present lamp was commissioned by French producer and director Raoul Lévy, best known for his work with Brigitte Bardot. The ‘Feuille’ lamp was additionally used by Frank in numerous other famed interiors such as Nelson and Happy Rockefeller’s residence in New York.