Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)

Chat matre d'htel (version au plateau rectangulaire)

Details

Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)
Chat matre d'htel (version au plateau rectangulaire)
stamped with the monogram 'DG' (on top of the base)
bronze with black patina
11 3/4in. (30cm.) high
Conceived in 1961 and cast at a later date in an edition of twenty

Provenance

Adrien Maeght, Paris
Acquired from the above by Mrs Albert D. Lasker, New York, in 1964
Given by the above to Alice Fordyce, New York, in 1967
Acquired from the Estate of the above by the present owner

Literature

D. Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, New York 1987 (another cast illustrated p. 120).
M. Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris 1985 (another cast illustrated). F. Francisci, Diego Giacometti Catalogue de l'Oeuvre, vol. I, Evreux 1986 (another cast illustrated p. 18).

Sale room notice

Please note that this work should not be daggered in the catalogue

Lot Essay

According to Daniel Marchesseau (op.cit), Chat matre d'htel was executed in two versions. The first, of which the present work is one of twenty, was conceived in 1961 and shows the cat holding a rectangular platter with its tail touching the base. The second version was conceived in 1967 and shows the cat holding a bowl with its tail off the ground.

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