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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 122 | $****** - ****** | Tête qui regarde (Gazing Head) |
sculpture
40.6 x 92 x 15 cm (16 x 36.2 x 5.9 in)
plaster
signed and dated 'Alberto Giacometti 1928' (on the back above the base)
Denis & Fiona Clarke Hall, London and Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist, with assistance from S. J. Woods, London, circa 1936-1939, and thence by descent to the present owner.
London, Duncan Miller Ltd., Modern Pictures for Modern Rooms: An Exhibition of Abstract Art in Contemporary Settings, April 1936, no. 3.
London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, June - July 1936, no. 119, p. 19.
M. Leiris, 'Alberto Giacometti', in Documents, Issue 4, September 1929, p. 211 (another plaster cast illustrated).
C. Gideon-Welcker, 'New Roads in Modern Sculpture', in Transition, 1935, pp. 198-201 (another plaster cast illustrated).
J. Dupin & E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 197 (another plaster cast illustrated).
P. Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, no. 6 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 90).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, 1913-1965, Tate Gallery, London, 1965, no. 8 (another plaster cast illustrated pl. I).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 32 (bronze cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1969, no. 12, p. 19 (another plaster cast illustrated).
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1971, p. 306 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 48).
Exh. cat., Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti Stiftung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 1971, p. 78 (marble version illustrated).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1974, nos. 11 & 13 (bronze cast illustrated p. 54; marble version illustrated p. 55).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, 1978, no. 9, p. 73 (bronze cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1983 (bronze cast illustrated pl. 5).
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, no. 62, pp. 45 & 174 (marble version illustrated p. 45; a design drawing illustrated p. 174).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1986, no. 51, p. 264 (marble version illustrated p. 55).
J. Lord, Giacometti: A Biography, New York, 1986, pp. 110 & 153 (marble version illustrated pp. 178-179).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1988, no. 9, p. 82 (marble version illustrated p. 83).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1990, no. 152, p. 370 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 371).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, pp. 148-149, 153, 156-157 & 162 (a design drawing illustrated fig. 144, p. 152; marble version illustrated fig. 145, p. 153; another plaster cast illustrated fig. 147, p. 155).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, sculptures, peintures, dessins, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1991 p. 123 (marble version illustrated).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, sculptures, peintures, dessins, Fondation Basil et Elise Goulandris, Andros, 1992, p. 66 (bronze cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., A Century in Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1992 (marble version illustrated).
A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Munich & New York, 1994, no. 15 (marble version illustrated).
D. Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, London, 1994, p. 252 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 177).
Exh. cat., Alberto Giacometti, Royal Academy, London, 1996, no. 56, p. 143 (bronze cast illustrated p. 142).
V. Wiesinger & B. Nilsson, Alberto Giacometti, Stockholm, 2006, p. 52 (another plaster cast illustrated).
A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews, Barcelona, 2006, p. 34 (marble version illustrated p. 23).
V. Wiesinger, Giacometti: La figure au défi, Paris, 2007, p. 31 (another plaster cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007, no. 88, pp. 113,119 & 401 (another plaster cast illustrated pl. 97, p. 93 and pl. 416, p. 284; terracotta version illustrated pl. 417, p. 284).
Exh. cat., Giacometti, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2009, no. 32, p. 216 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 62).
V. Wiesinger, ed., Giacometti, Sao Paulo, 2012, p. 339 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 140).
V. Wiesinger, ed., Alberto Giacometti, A Retrospective, Barcelona, 2012, pp. 27 & 139 (another plaster cast illustrated).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti, Traces of a Friendship, Zurich, 2013, p. 239 (bronze cast, marble version and another plaster cast
illustrated p. 140).
La sculpture: De l'Antiquité au XXe siècle, Cologne, 2013, p. 1006 (another plaster cast illustrated).
T. Matthews, Alberto Giacometti, London, 2014, p. 177 (another plaster cast illustrated pl. 35).
Exh. cat., Giacometti, Tate Gallery, London, 2017, p. 294 (another plaster cast and terracotta version illustrated p. 150).
The Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation Database, no. 4054.
signed and dated 'Alberto Giacometti 1928' (on the back above the base)
plaster
Height: 16 in. (40.4 cm.)
Executed in 1929
