ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

Annette X

signed, numbered and inscribed on the back of the base Alberto Giacometti 7/8 Susse Fondeur Paris--bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.)

Cast in 1965, number seven in an edition of eight

Provenance

Annette Giacometti, Paris, acquired by the present owner in 1984

Literature

K.M. Baranano, Alberto Giacometti, Barcelona, 1986, p. 548,
no. 253 (another cast illustrated in color p. 249 and again in black and white p. 689)

Lot Essay

This is the last in a series of ten busts of his wife that Giacometti executed between 1962 and 1965. According to Valerie Fletcher:

This series constituted a change from his working methods of the
preceding decade, when he had customarily used his wife as a
model for paintings and drawings while basing most of his
sculpture busts on Diego.
The busts of Annette exemplify the artist's late style, which was more overtly expressionist. As in the last busts of Diego from
1965, the gaunt head strains forward, as if to channel its
energies into the hypnotic gaze. (V.J. Fletcher, Alberto
Giacometti 1901-1966, Washington, 1988, p. 230)