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    • Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
    Lot 362

    Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

    Lampe à tête de femme

    Price realised

    USD 92,500

    Estimate

    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000

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    Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
    Lampe à tête de femme
    signed 'Alberto Giacometti' (on the right side of the base)
    bronze with brown patina; wired for electricity
    Height: 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
    Designed by Alberto Giacometti for Jean-Michel Frank circa 1937; this bronze version cast by Diego Giacometti by the late 1960s

    Provenance

    Harry Sherwood, Los Angeles (acquired in the late 1960s).
    By descent from the above to the present owner.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    M. Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 59 (other casts
    illustrated).
    F. Francisci, Diego Giacometti, Catalogue de l'oeuvre, Paris, 1986, vol. I, p. 115 (another cast illustrated, pp. 26-27).
    D. Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 35 (another cast illustrated).
    L.D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, pp. 239 and 244 (plaster version illustrated, pp. 238 and 244; titled Lampe en staff, à tête de femme, dated 1936).
    The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 1664.


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    PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTOR

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