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Property From The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections

Alberto Giacometti

Tête de Diego

Session begins in

November 19, 08:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Bid

35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property From The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections

Alberto Giacometti  

1901 - 1966 

 

Tête de Diego

signed Alberto Giacometti and dated 1946. (lower right) 

pencil on paper 

20 by 12 ½ in.  

50.8 by 31.8 cm.  

Executed in 1946.  

 

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti, and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as 4195. 

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

Private Collection

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired from the above in 1998)

Acquired by descent from the above in 2016 by the present owner

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1971, no. 94

Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti. Biographie d'une oeuvre, Paris, 1991, no. 280, p. 307, illustrated

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Drawings, 1964, no. 13

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, Alberto Giacometti: Dessins, 1968, no. 12

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, Alberto Giacometti: Dessins 1922-1965, 1969, no. 6

New York Studio School, Alberto Giacometti Drawings, An Intimate View, 2014-15, no. 27