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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2014 | La Main | 1 | Christie's | London | |||
| May 4, 2010 | La Main | Christie's | New York | ||||
sculpture
57 x 72 x 3.5 cm (22.44 x 28.35 x 1.38 in)
bronze with brown patina
signed and numbered ‘A. Giacometti 1/6’ (on the inner bicep)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.Edward James, London.Ruth Ford, by whom acquired from the above in 1952;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1985, lot 90.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, January - February 1948, no. 27.Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, September - November 1988, no. 35(illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, December 1988 - February 1989.Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Alberto Giacometti, June - October 1998, no. 41, p. 97 (illustrated under no. 19, p. 48).New York, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, Inner Self, February - March 1998.Shawinigan, Quebec, The National Gallery of Canada, The Body Transformed, June - October 2003.Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada (on loan from the present owner, 2003 - 2004).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen, Zurich, 1958, pp. 104-105 (another cast illustrated).P. Bucarelli, Alberto Giacometti, Rome, 1962, no. 25 (another cast illustrated).J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 240 (another cast illustrated).F. Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit, Zurich, 1968, pp. 130, 145 & 166 (another cast illustrated pl. 13).C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1970, p. 92.R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, London, 1972, no. 116, p. 307 (plaster cast illustrated pl. 116).J. Lord, Giacometti: A Biography, New York, 1986, pp. 286, 289, 387-388.M. & H. Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, pp. 58, 68-69 & 328 (another cast illustrated).Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, no. 301, p. 328 (plaster cast illustrated).A. Schneider, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Munich, 1994, fig. 46 (another cast illustrated).T. Dufrêne, Alberto Giacometti: Les Dimensions de la réalité, Geneva, 1994, p. 144.D. Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, London, 1995, pp. 58-59 (another cast illustrated).R. Hohl, Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures, New York, 1998, p. 100.J. Dupin, Three Essays, New York, 2003, p. 58.T. Mathews, 'Touch, Translation, Witness in Alberto Giacometti La Main, Le Nez' in French Studies, 2007, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 447-459.U. Küster, Giacometti, Ostfildern, 2009, no. 74, p. 105 (another cast illustrated).
