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AN EYE FOR COLOUR: WORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Tête de guerrier (Copie d'après une monnaie des Parisii reproduite dans: André Malraux, Psychologie de l'art. La monnaie de l'absolu, 1950, p. 197) (AGD 1771)
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Tête de guerrier (Copie d'après une monnaie des Parisii reproduite dans: André Malraux, Psychologie de l'art. La monnaie de l'absolu, 1950, p. 197) (AGD 1771)
signed 'Alberto Giacometti' (lower right)
pen and brown ink and pencil on paper
11 5⁄8 x 8 ¼ in. (29.5 x 21 cm.)
Executed circa 1952
Tête de guerrier (Copie d'après une monnaie des Parisii reproduite dans: André Malraux, Psychologie de l'art. La monnaie de l'absolu, 1950, p. 197) (AGD 1771)
signed 'Alberto Giacometti' (lower right)
pen and brown ink and pencil on paper
11 5⁄8 x 8 ¼ in. (29.5 x 21 cm.)
Executed circa 1952
Provenance
Galerie Engelberts, Geneva, by 1967.
Brook Street Gallery, London.
Private collection, Missouri, by whom acquired from the above in September 1967.
Private collection, San Francisco, by descent from the above in 2004; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 May 2011, lot 169.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Brook Street Gallery, London.
Private collection, Missouri, by whom acquired from the above in September 1967.
Private collection, San Francisco, by descent from the above in 2004; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 May 2011, lot 169.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Brook Street Gallery, Chagall, Giacometti, Matisse, Modigliani, Summer 1967, no. 8, p. 2 (illustrated on the cover; titled 'Head of a Man', dated '1962' and with incorrect medium).
Geneva, Galerie Engelberts, Alberto Giacometti, Dessins, Estampes, Livres illustrés, Sculptures, March - April 1967, no. 91, p. 84 (illustrated; dated '1962' and with incorrect medium).
Geneva, Galerie Engelberts, Alberto Giacometti, Dessins, Estampes, Livres illustrés, Sculptures, March - April 1967, no. 91, p. 84 (illustrated; dated '1962' and with incorrect medium).
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