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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2021 | Le Nez | 6 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
81.3 x 72.4 x 38.1 cm (32 x 28.5 x 15 in)
bronze, steel and iron
Inscribed Giacometti, numbered 6/6 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4329.
Estate of the artist
Private Collection
Private Collection
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 26 June 1992, lot 30
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above on 28 November 1994
Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 236, illustrated (plaster)
Palma Bucarelli, Alberto Giacometti , Rome, 1962, pls. 23-24, illustrated (plasters)
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti , Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings 1913-65 , 1965, pl. 16, illustrated (plaster)
Franz Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit , Stuttgart, 1968, p. 12, illustrated (plaster)
Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti , Zurich, 1970, p. 90
Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Stuttgart, 1971, p. 120, illustrated (plaster)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition , 1974, p. 85, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum and traveling; Alberto Giacometti, The Milton D. Ratner Family Collection , 1974-75, pp. 10, 39, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Alberto Giacometti , 1978, pl. 44, illustrated in color (another cast)
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1984, p. 131, illustrated (plaster)
Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Alberto Giacometti , 1986, pp. 185, 268, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Giacometti, Giovanni 1868-1933, Augusto 1877-1947, Alberto 1901-1966, Diego 1902-1985 , 1987, p. 24, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966 , 1988-89, p. 125, illustrated (another cast)
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of His Work , Paris, 1991, p. 293, illustrated (another cast); p. 295, illustrated (plaster)
Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Giacometti Sculpture , 1993, p. 16, illustrated in color (another cast)
Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings , Munich and New York, 1994, pl. 44, illustrated
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti , New York, 2001, illustrated in color (another cast)
Exh. Cat. , Zurich, Kunsthaus and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti , 2001-02, p. 147, illustrated (plaster), p. 275, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti. Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, 2007-08, pp. 136-39, illustrated (plaster and another cast)
Beaux Arts , Boulogne-Billancourt, May 2009, p. 20, illustrated in color (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Geneva, Musée d’art et d’histoire and Musée Rath, Alberto Giacometti, 2009-10, p. 171, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., New York, Eykyn Maclean Gallery, In Giacometti’s Studio-An Intimate Portrait , 2010, p. 41, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum and Salzburg , Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Alberto Giacometti The Origin of Space , 2010-11, pp. 48 and 81, illustrated in color (another cast)
Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Alberto Giacometti Yves Klein In Search of the Absolute , 2016, vol. I, pp. 86, 138, illustrated in color (another cast); vol. II, p. 152, illustrated in color (another cast)
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, Giacometti , 2017, pp. 206-07, illustrated (plaster)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Giacometti , 2018, p. 85 and on the cover, illustrated in color (another cast)
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Le Nez
Inscribed Giacometti, numbered 6/6 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
bronze, steel and iron
32 by 28 ½ by 15 in.
81.3 by 72.4 by 38 cm
Conceived in 1947; this version conceived in 1949 and cast in 1965.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4329.
