Table berceau, première version

Details

Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)
Table berceau, première version
bronze with green patina and glass top
Height: 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.)
Width: 54 1/8 in. (137.5 cm.)
Depth: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.)
Designed circa 1963; this bronze version cast before 1981

Provenance

Leigh Block, Chicago and Santa Barbara (circa 1981).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

D. Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 67 (another cast illustrated).

Lot Essay

Leigh Block, the first owner of this table, was a renowned collector and a trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago. He and his wife Mary endowed the museum of art in their name at Northwestern University in Evanston.

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