Fondation Giacometti -  [Head of Simone de Beauvoir]
Fondation Giacometti -  [Head of Simone de Beauvoir]
AGD 448

[Head of Simone de Beauvoir]

Date circa 1946

Medium Plaster reworked with a pocket knife and with pencil highlights

Dimensions 5,82 x 3,34 x 3,70 in.

Collection Fondation Giacometti, Paris

Inscription

No inscription

Provenance

Alberto GIACOMETTI
Succession Alberto Giacometti
Fondation Giacometti

Exhibition history

2007 L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti, Paris (France), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, from October 15th 2007 to February 11th 2008, no. 146
2012 L'Art en guerre. France (1938-1947). De Picasso à Dubuffet., from October 12th 2012 to February 17th 2013
2016 Alberto Giacometti retrospective at Yuz Museum, Shanghai (China), The Shanghai Yuz Museum, from March 22nd to July 31st 2016
2016 Picasso-Giacomettii, Paris (France), Musée National Picasso, from October 4th 2016 to February 5th 2017
2018 Alberto Giacometti Retrospective Québec, Quebec (Canada), Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, from February 8th to May 13th 2018
2018 Giacometti Retrospective Guggenheim New York, New York, NY (United States Of America), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, from June 8th to September 12th 2018
2018 Giacometti Restrospective Bilbao, Bilbao (Spain), Guggenheim Museum, from October 19th 2018 to February 24th 2019
2019 Alberto Giacometti, D'après le modèle (Prague)., Prague (Czech Republic), Veletržní palác, from July 18th to December 1st 2019
2022 Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex., Bonn (Germany), Bundeskunsthalle, from March 4th to October 16th 2022
2024 Alberto Giacometti – What Meets the Eye., Copenhague (Denmark), Statens Museum for Kunst, from February 10th to May 20th 2024

Bibliography

Véronique WIESINGER (under the direction of), L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti, Paris : Fondation Giacometti, 2007 / Paris : Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007, cat. no. 146, p. 101, pl. 467, ill. p. 336
Laurence BERTRAND DORLEAC, Jacqueline MUNCK (under the direction of), L'art en guerre. France 1938-1947, Paris : Paris-Musées, 2012, p. 474
Laurence BERTRAND DORLEAC, Jacqueline MUNCK, L'arte en guerra. Francia, 1938-1947, Madrid : La Fábrica, 2013 / Bilbao : Museo Guggenheim, 2013, p. 473

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