Tête de profil
Date circa 1946
Medium Pencil on paper
Dimensions 12,55 x 9,99 in.
Collection Private collection
Alberto Giacometti often took his own brother Diego as his model, to make countless portraits, many created from memory. Exhibited in the artist’s lifetime at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in December 1950, the work was reproduced and featured in the photography of the hanging in the frontispiece of the catalogue. Although that drawing was reproduced in a catalogue of the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York with the date 1950, it can nevertheless be linked to other heads in profile made in 1946 (a series of portraits of Diego, Pierre Loeb and Simone de Beauvoir). The date of 1950 corresponds to that of the entry of the drawing in the Pierre Matisse Gallery (archives of the gallery, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York).
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Pierre Matisse Gallery
John O'CONNELL
Private collection
1950 Alberto Giacometti, New York, NY (United States Of America), Pierre Matisse Gallery, from December 12th 1950 to January 6th 1951
1973 From Southampton collections, Southampton, NY (United States Of America), The Parrish Art Museum, from August 4th to September 2nd 1973, no. 55
Alberto GIACOMETTI, Alberto Giacometti, New York, NY : Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1950, p. 25, ill. p. 25
The Parrish Art Museum, From Southampton Collection, Southampton, NY : The Parrish Art Museum, 1973, cat. no. 55