Details
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Petit buste sur double socle
signed and numbered on the right side of the base A. Giacometti 3/8, inscribed on the back of the base L. THINOT fdr Paris--bronze with brown patina
Height: 4½in. (11.4cm.)
Original plaster version executed 1940-1941; this bronze version cast posthumously by the estate of the artist in 1970, number three in edition of eight
Petit buste sur double socle
signed and numbered on the right side of the base A. Giacometti 3/8, inscribed on the back of the base L. THINOT fdr Paris--bronze with brown patina
Height: 4½in. (11.4cm.)
Original plaster version executed 1940-1941; this bronze version cast posthumously by the estate of the artist in 1970, number three in edition of eight
Literature
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, pp. 273-282, no. 247 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 274)