Fondation Giacometti

Giacometti's studio at 46 rue Hippolyte-Maindron, in the Alésia district near Montparnasse, is the central theme of his paintings and drawings from the period after the war. During those years, Giacometti painted not only portraits in which the model almost merges with the furniture, tools and works in his studio, but also paintings that represent a corner of the room, with works on which the artist was working at the time. Around 1950, Giacometti did at least 8 paintings representing works in his studio.
In this painting, the small studio stool is represented in the foreground, and slightly askew. The elongated head, similar to the one Giacometti sculpted between 1947 and 1950, occupies the centre of the painting. Next to the sculpture, on the small stool, the artist has drawn two big red fruits (probably apples) that break up the monochromatism of the painting. Behind the elongated head is a naked bust, visible on a pedestal, and canvases one can vaguely discern at the back. The painting is signed and dated 1950 in the artist's hand and the title “Still life in the studio” was given in his lifetime during the exhibition at Dallas' Museum of Contemporary Art in 1960.

Signed and dated with a paintbrush at the bottom right corner "Alberto Giacometti 1950"

Pierre LOEB
Sale Christie's New York, NY, November 13th, 1985, lot n ° 351
Sale Galerie Koller Zurich (Switzerland), November 21st, 1986, lot n ° 5 123
Sale Sotheby's London (United Kingdom), June 30th, 1987, lot n ° 85
Waddington Galleries Ltd
Sale Christie's London (United Kingdom), June 25th, 1996, lot n ° 24
Sale Christie's London (United Kingdom), June 30th, 1999, lot n ° 542
Private collection
Sale Sotheby's New York, NY (United States Of America), November 2nd, 2010, lot n ° 8

1960 To be Continued. An exhibition of the Museum collection, now and in prospect, Dallas, TX (United States Of America), Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, from March 23rd to April 24th 1960, no. 47
1979 Giacometti : on loan from the Maeght Foundation, Dallas, TX (United States Of America), Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, from September 26th to November 25th 1979, no. 33
1980 Giacometti : on loan from the Maeght Foundation, Monterrey (Mexico), Museo de Monterrey, from January 1st to March 1st 1980, no. 33

To Be Continued, Dallas, TX : Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, 1960, cat. no. 47, ill. p. n.p.
Giacometti : on loan from the Maeght Foundation, Dallas, TX : Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1979, cat. no. 33, p. n.p.
Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture (Part II), New York, NY : Christie's, 1985, lot no. 351
Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, Zurich : Galerie Koller, 1986, lot no. 5123, pl. 9
Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, London : Sotheby's, 1987, lot no. 85
Impressionist and Modern Art. Part II, London : Sotheby's, 1996, lot no. 24
Christie's Twentieth Century Art, London : Christie's Inc., 1999, lot no. 542, ill. p. 105
Impressionist & Modern Art. Evening Sale, New York, NY : Sotheby's, 2010, lot no. 8, p. 34-37, ill. p. 35