[Surrealist Composition II]
Date 1935
Medium Pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions 11,14 x 7,75 in.
Collection Private collection
Signed and dated with a pencil at the bottom right corner "Alberto Giacometti / 1935."
Private collection
Sale Kornfeld und Klipstein, Berne Berne (Switzerland), 1975, lot n ° 355
Private collection
1962 Alberto Giacometti, Zurich (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Zürich, from December 2nd 1962 to January 6th 1963, no. 205
1962 Alberto Giacometti, Zurich (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Zürich, from December 2nd 1962 to January 6th 1963, no. 205
1962 Alberto Giacometti, Zurich (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Zürich, from December 2nd 1962 to January 6th 1963
1966 Giacometti, Basel (Switzerland), Kunsthalle Basel, from June 25th to August 28th 1966, no. 225
1966 Giacometti, Basel (Switzerland), Kunsthalle Basel, from June 25th to August 28th 1966, no. 225
1978 Alberto Giacometti, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France), Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, from July 8th to September 30th 1978, no. 262
1978 Alberto Giacometti. Ein Klassiker der Moderne 1901-1966, Skulpturen, Gemälde, Ze, Coire (Switzerland), Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, from October 22nd to December 3rd 1978, no. 200
1981 Alberto Giacometti. Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Tübingen, Berlin, Kunsthall, no. 123
1981 Alberto Giacometti. Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Hambourg, Kunstverein, no. 123
1981 Alberto Giacometti. Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Basel (Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Basel, no. 123
1986 Alberto Giacometti, Martigny (Switzerland), Fondation Pierre Gianadda, from May 16th to November 2nd 1986, no. 75
1986 Alberto Giacometti, retour à la figuration, 1933-1947, Geneva (Switzerland), Musée Rath, from July 3rd to September 28th 1986
1986 Alberto Giacometti, retour à la figuration, 1933-1947, Paris (France), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, from October 15th 1986 to January 5th 1987
1988 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, Washington, D.C. (United States Of America), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, from September 15th to November 13th 1988, no. 24
1988 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, San Francisco, CA (United States Of America), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from December 15th 1988 to February 5th 1989, no. 24
1989 Von Goya bis Tinguely , Berne (Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Bern, no. 204
1990 Alberto Giacometti. Dibujo. Escultura. Pintura, Madrid (Spain), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, from November 14th 1990 to January 15th 1991, no. 19
1991 Alberto Giacometti. Sculptures. Peintures. Dessins, Paris (France), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, from November 30th 1991 to March 15th 1992, no. 62
1992 Alberto Giacometti. Sculptures. Peintures. Dessins, Andros (Greece), Fondation Basil & Elise Goulandris, from June 28th to September 6th 1992, no. 21
1996 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, Vienne (Austria), Kunsthalle, from February 24th to May 5th 1996, no. 92
1996 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, Edimbourg (United Kingdom), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, from June 1st to September 22nd 1996, no. 93
1996 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, London (United Kingdom), Royal Academy of Arts, from October 9th 1996 to January 1st 1997, no. 93
1997 Alberto Giacometti, Munich (Germany), Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, from April 17th to June 29th 1997, no. 20
1998 Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Davos (Switzerland), Kirchner Museum Davos, from September 20th to May 23rd 1998, no. 112
2001 Alberto Giacometti, Zurich (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Zürich, from May 18th to September 2nd 2001, no. 60
2001 Alberto Giacometti, New York, NY (United States Of America), The Museum of Modern Art, from October 11th 2001 to January 8th 2002, no. 60
2003 Espiritu de modernidad . De Goya a Giacometti, Obra sobre papel de la coleccion Kornfeld, Madrid (Spain), Fundacion Juan March, from February 7th to June 8th 2003, no. 69
2004 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, Budapest (Hungary), The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, from March 23rd to June 15th 2004, no. 36
2008 Wege der Moderne. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Vienne (Austria), Albertina, from November 7th 2008 to February 8th 2009, no. 143
Alberto Giacometti, retour à la figuration, 1933-1947, Musée Rath. Genève. Musée national d'art moderne Paris, Geneva : Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1986 / Paris : Musée national d'art moderne Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1986, ill. p. 38
Pierre SCHNEIDER, Alberto Giacometti. Sculptures, Martigny : Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1986, pl. 75
Alberto Giacometti, New York, NY : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987, pl. 24
Angela SCHNEIDER, Alberto Giacometti, Munich : Buchhandelsausgabe Prestel Verlag, 1987, pl. 52
Alberto Giacometti. Spuren einer Freundschaft, Zurich : Verlag Ernst Scheidegger, 1990, ill. p. 124
Kosme Maria de BARANANO, Alberto Giacometti. Dibujo. Escultura. Pintura, Barcelona : Lunwerg Editores S.A., 1990, pl. 19
Suzanne PAGE (under the direction of), Alberto Giacometti. Sculptures. Peintures. Dessins, Paris : Paris-Musées, 1991, pl. 62
Yves BONNEFOY, Alberto Giacometti. Biographie d'une oeuvre, Paris : Flammarion, 1991, pl. 561, ill. p. 541
Kiriakos KOUTSOMALLIS, Alberto Giacometti. Sculptures. Peintures. Dessins, Andros : Fondation Basil & Elise Goulandris, 1992, cat. no. 21
Georges DIDI-HUBERMAN, Le cube et le visage, Autour d'une sculpture d'Alberto Giacometti, Paris : Editions Macula, 1993, cat. no. 26, ill. p. 53
Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, London : Royal Academy of Arts, 1996 / Edimbourg : Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1996, cat. no. 93
Christoph DOSWALD, Patrick ELLIOTT, Toni STOOSS (under the direction of), Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, Stuttgart : Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1996, cat. no. 92
Alberto Giacometti, Munich : Hirmer Verlag, 1997 / Munich : Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 1997, cat. no. 20
Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld Bern-Davos, Davos : Verwaltung Slg. E.W.K. und Kirchner Museum Davos, 1998, cat. no. 112
Christian KLEMM (under the direction of), Alberto Giacometti, Zurich : Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001 / Berlin : Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2001 / New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, 2001, cat. no. 60, ill. p. 272, 115
Marc FEHLMANN, Matthias FREHNER, Hommage an 'E.W.K.', Meisterwerke von Giovanni, Alberto und Diego Giacometti aus der Sammlung von Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Berne : Kunstmuseum Bern, 2003, cat. no. 27
Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, Works from the Alberto Giacometti Stiftung Zürich, and other collections, Budapest : The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2004, cat. no. 36, ill. p. 119
Christine EKELHART, Klaus Albrecht SCHRODER, Wege der Moderne. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Vienne : Albertina, 2008, cat. no. 167
Christine EKELHART, Klaus Albrecht SCHRODER, Wege der Moderne. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Vienne : Albertina, 2008, cat. no. 143, ill. p. 285, 225
Giacometti, London : Tate Publishing, 2017, ill. p. 174