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Alberto Giacometti

Tête d'homme

inscribed Alberto Giacometti and numbered 5/6

bronze

height: 10½ in.

26.7 cm.

Conceived and cast in 1961 by the Fonderie Rota-Gay.

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Alberto Giacometti
Tête d'homme

inscribed Alberto Giacometti and numbered 5/6

bronze

height: 10½ in.

26.7 cm.

Conceived and cast in 1961 by the Fonderie Rota-Gay.

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Alex Maguy, Paris

Private Collection, New York

Jeffrey Loria, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired circa 2004)

Private Collection

Lévy Gorvy, New York

Acquired from the above in May 2019 by the present owner

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (and traveling), Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974, no. 101, p. 119, illustration in color of another cast (titled Head of Diego (Tête de Diego))

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago (and traveling), Alberto Giacometti: The Milton D. Ratner Family Collection, 1974-75, no. 50, p. 46, illustration of another cast and p. 58 (titled Head of Diego)

Exh. Cat., New York, The American Federation of Arts, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor and Draftsman, 1977, no. 10, illustration of another cast and p. 15

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti au Japon, 1983, no. 189, n.p., illustration of another cast (titled Tête de Diego)

Reinhold Hohl, ed., Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, p. 179, illustration of another cast in a Kunsthaus Zurich installation image