Fondation Giacometti -  [Head of Marie-Laure de Noailles in profile (recto)] / [Drawing for the text Le Rêve, le Sphinx et la mort de T.]
Fondation Giacometti -  [Head of Marie-Laure de Noailles in profile (recto)] / [Drawing for the text Le Rêve, le Sphinx et la mort de T.]
AGD 1823

[Head of Marie-Laure de Noailles in profile (recto)] / [Drawing for the text Le Rêve, le Sphinx et la mort de T.]

Date 1946

Medium Graphite pencil and eraser on wove paper

Dimensions 19,68 x 12,59 in.

Collection Fondation Giacometti, Paris

Inscription

Signed and dated in graphite pencil at the bottom right corner "Alberto Giacometti / 1946"

Provenance

Private collection
Sale Galerie Kornfeld Berne (Switzerland), June 6th, 2008, lot n ° 45
Fondation Giacometti

Exhibition history

2009 Giacometti, Balthus, Skira. Les années Labyrinthe (1944-1946), Geneva (Switzerland), Musée Rath, from April 9th to July 5th 2009
2010 Charles et Marie-Laure de Noailles, une vie de mécènes, Hyères (France), Villa Noailles, from July 2nd 2010 to July 1st 2011
2011 Vitrines Alberto Giacometti, Paris (France), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, from November 28th 2011 to March 28th 2012
2012 Giacometti, Memory and Presence, Charlotte, NC (United States Of America), Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, from August 31st 2012 to January 21st 2013
2019 Alberto Giacometti, d'après modèle, Albi , Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, from March 15th to June 30th 2019

Bibliography

Siegfried SALZMANN, Alberto Giacometti. Plastiken. Gemälde. Zeichnungen, Duisburg : Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, 1977, ill. p. 117
150 ausgewählte Kunstwerke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Berne : Galerie Kornfeld, 2008, lot no. 45
Giacometti, Balthus, Skira. Les années Labyrinthe (1944-1946), Geneva : Musée Rath, 2009, ill. p. Cahier 4 page 15
Giacometti, Balthus, Skira. Les années Labyrinthe (1944-1946), Geneva : Musée Rath, 2009, ill. p. Cahier 4 page 15

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