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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2018 | Le Chat | 2 | Christie's | New York | |||
| Jun 19, 2018 | LE CHAT | 3 | Sotheby's | London | |||
sculpture
207 x 207 cm (81.5 x 81.5 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed and numbered 'Alberto Giacometti 2/8' (on the top of the base), inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the side of the base), numbered '4/8' (on the underside)
Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1955).
Baronne Johanna Lambert, Brussels (acquired from the above, 19 October 1955).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
F. Ponge, "Réflexions sur les statuettes, figures et peintures d'Alberto Giacometti" in Cahiers d'Art, no. 444, 1951, p. 74 (plaster version illustrated).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen, Zürich, 1958, p. 117 (plaster version illustrated).
P. Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, no. 45 (another cast illustrated).
J. Lord, A Giacometti Portrait, New York, 1965, p. 21.
F. Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit, Zürich, 1968, p. 162.
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart, 1971, p. 121 (plaster version illustrated).
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 142, no. 202 (another cast illustrated).
T. Ben Jelloun, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1991, p. 23 (another cast illustrated in color).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, pp. 368-369, no. 342 (another cast illustrated).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Traces d'une amitié, Paris, 1991, p. 110 (another cast illustrated p. 140; plaster versions illustrated, pp. 140-141).
Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, peintures, dessins, exh. cat., Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1991, pp. 232 and 460, no. 132, (another cast illustrated).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, De Matisse à Picasso, exh. cat., Zürich, 1994, p. 286 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 287).
M. Peppiatt, Alberto Giacometti: Œuvres de la maturité, London, 2002, p. 25 (plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist's studio).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture in Plaster, Zürich, 2006, pp. 65-67, 110 and 111 (plaster version illustrated in color).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Traces of a Friendship, Zürich, 2013, p. 244, no. 171 (other casts illustrated; plaster version illustrated).
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4030.
signed and numbered 'Alberto Giacometti 2/8' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the side of the base); numbered '4/8' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Length: 32 1/8 in. (81.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1951 and cast in 1955
