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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Details
inscribed Alberto Giacometti and numbered 5/6
height: 10½ in.
26.7 cm.
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