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Fondation Giacometti - [Dark Head] (painted over a portrait of Yanaihara from 1957)
AGD 3708

[Dark Head] (painted over a portrait of Yanaihara from 1957)

Date 1957 - 1962

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 39,37 x 25,59 in.

Collection Private collection

Inscription

Signed and dated with a paintbrush at the bottom right corner "Alberto Giacometti 1957"

Provenance

Galerie Maeght
Sale LOUDMER Guy Paris (France), October 27th, 1982, lot n ° 32
Private collection
Private collection
Joanne TOOR CUMMINGS
Sale Christie's New York New York, NY, April 30th, 1996, lot n ° 24
Private collection
Private collection
Private collection
Sale Christie's New York New York, NY (United States Of America), May 15th, 2018, lot n ° 35
Private collection

Exhibition history

1958 Giacometti : Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings from 1956 to 1958, New York, NY (United States Of America), Pierre Matisse Gallery, from 6th to May 31st 1958
1962 XXXI Biennale internazionale d'arte, Venice (Italy), Biennale d'arte, from June 16th to October 7th 1962
1962 Alberto Giacometti, Zurich (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Zürich, from December 2nd 1962 to January 6th 1963
1964 Inauguration de la Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France), Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
1970 Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Rome (Italy), Villa Medici, from October 24th to December 18th 1970, no. 17
1978 Alberto Giacometti, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France), Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, from July 8th to September 30th 1978, no. 160
1982 L'univers d'Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France), Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, from July 3rd to October 3rd 1982, no. 69

Bibliography

Domus, Architettura arredamento arte, Milan & Rome : Editoriale Domus, no. 393, august 1962, p. 25
Alberto Giacometti, Zurich : Kunsthaus, 1962
XXXI Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venezia : La Biennale di Venezia, 1962
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Rome : De Luca Editore, 1970, cat. no. 17, p. 32
Le chaos de la nuit, Paris : Gallimard, 1973, p. En couverture
Jacques DUPIN, Alberto Giacometti, Saint-Paul-de-Vence : Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, 1978, cat. no. 160, p. 196, ill. p. 135
L'univers d'Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Saint Paul : Fondation Maeght, 1982, cat. no. 69, p. 264
Yves BONNEFOY, Alberto Giacometti. Biographie d'une oeuvre, Paris : Flammarion, 1991, cat. no. 410, p. 428, ill. p. 428
Yves BONNEFOY, Alberto Giacometti. Biographie d'une oeuvre, Paris : Flammarion, 2012, cat. no. 410, p. 428, ill. p. 428

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