Fondation Giacometti -  Untitled [Head]
Fondation Giacometti -  Untitled [Head]
AGD 3589

Untitled [Head]

Date 1926

Medium Plaster and wood

Dimensions 17,28 x 7,08 x 5,98 in.

Collection Private collection

Inscription

Signature engraved on the base to its proper left "A. Giacometti"

Provenance

Alberto GIACOMETTI
Galerie Jeanne Bucher
Private collection

Exhibition history

1926 Salon des Tuileries, Paris (France), Palais de Bois (Porte Maillot)
1960 Galerie Jeanne Bucher 1925-1960, Paris (France), Galerie Jeanne Bucher
1963 Art has many facets. The Artistic Fascination with the cube, Houston, TX (United States Of America), Fine Arts Gallery, University of St Thomas, from March 23rd to May 12th 1963, no. 132
1995 Alberto Giacometti. Sculture. Dipinti. Disegni, Milan (Italy), Palazzo Reale, from January 26th to April 2nd 1995, no. 7
2004 MOI ! Autoportraits du XXème siècle, Paris (France), Musée du Luxembourg, from March 31st to July 25th 2004
2004 MOI ! Autoportraits du XXème siècle, Florence (Italy), Palazzo Strozzi, from September 1st 2004 to January 9th 2005
2016 Alberto Giacometti : In His Own Words. Sculptures 1925-34. (works from the years 1925-1936), London (United Kingdom), Luxembourg & Dayan, from February 1st to April 16th 2016
2017 Alberto Giacometti - Tate Modern London, London (United Kingdom), Tate Gallery, from May 10th to September 10th 2017

Bibliography

Rosamond BERNIER, in L'Oeil, Paris : Georges Bernier, éditeur, no. 102, june 1963
"Ein Selbstdarstellung des jungen Alberto Giacometti", in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, july 13th, 1991 - july 13th, 1991
Art has many facets, The artistic fascination with the cube, Houston, TX : Fine Arts Gallery, University of St Thomas, 1963, cat. no. 132
Michael F. BRENSON, The early work of Alberto Giacometti : 1925-1935, , 1974, cat. no. 26
Jeanne Bucher. Une galerie d'avant-garde 1925-1946, De Max Ernst à de Staël, Geneva : Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1994 / Strasbourg : Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, 1994
Casimiro DI CRESCENZO, Alberto Giacometti. Sculture. Dipinti. Disegni, Florence : Artificio Edizioni, 1995, cat. no. 7, ill. p. 113
Pascal BONAFOUX, MOI! Autoportraits du XXème siècle, Paris : Diane de Selliers
, 2004

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