Fondation Giacometti -  «La pauvre face tordue du maître de maison» (study for the illustration of the book Louis Aragon, Les Beaux Quartiers, Tome I, Paris, 1965 opposite to page 160)
AGD 2209

«La pauvre face tordue du maître de maison» (study for the illustration of the book Louis Aragon, Les Beaux Quartiers, Tome I, Paris, 1965 opposite to page 160)

Date 1965

Medium Pen and ink on notepaper

Dimensions 10,62 x 8,26 in.

Collection Private collection

Inscription

No inscription

Provenance

Private collection
Sale Christie's Paris Paris (France), December 12th, 2012, lot n ° 421

Exhibition history

1987 Els Giacometti. Giacometti Giovanni, Augusto, Alberto, Diego, Barcelona (Spain), Fundació Joan Miró, from September 17th to November 22nd 1987, no. 125
1990 L'Ecriture griffée, Saint-Etienne (France), Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, from December 6th 1990 to February 25th 1991, no. 120

Bibliography

Reinhold HOHL, Daniel MARCHESSEAU, Pierre SCHNEIDER, Beat STUTZER, Els Giacometti, Barcelona : Fundació Joan Miró, 1987, cat. no. 125, ill. p. 31
L'Ecriture Griffée, Saint-Etienne : Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 1993 / Paris : Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993, cat. no. 120, ill. p. 100
Pierre Berès à Livre ouvert, Paris : Christie's Paris, 2012, lot no. 421, ill. p. 191

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