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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 30, 2021 | Christie's | London | 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale | 11 | $****** - ****** | Homme qui chavire |
sculpture
59.5 cm (23.43 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
Galerie Maeght, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Lillian Florsheim, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above, in December 1951, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1998, lot 67.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1962, pp. 62-63 & 249 (another cast illustrated p. 249).
R.-J. Moulin, Giacometti: Sculptures , London, 1964, no. 7, n.p. (another cast illustrated pl. 7; another cast illustrated again on the cover).
F. Meyer, Alberto Giacometti, Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit, Stuttgart, 1968, p. 166.
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1971, no. 253, p. 308 (another cast illustrated pl. 253; titled 'Homme qui chavire II').
C. Juliet, Giacometti, Paris, 1985, no. 69, n.p. (another cast illustrated pl. 69).
A. Kuenzi, Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1986, no. 102, p. 270 (another cast illustrated).
P. Beye & D. Honisch, Alberto Giacometti Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik , Munich, 1987, no. 96, p. 215 (another cast illustrated).
M. Matter, Alberto Giacometti , New York, 1987, p. 219 (another cast illustrated p. 77; details of another cast illustrated pp. 88 & 89).
H. & M. Matter, Giacometti , New York, 1988, pp. 90-91.
T.B. Jelloun, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1990, p. 77 (another cast illustrated).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work , Paris, 1991, pp. 326, 335, 362 & 543 (another cast illustrated p. 327; titled ‘Staggering Man’).
A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings , Munich, 1994, p. 44 & pl. 62 (another cast illustrated; titled ‘Man Staggering, L’Homme qui chavire’).
T. Dufrêne, Alberto Giacometti, Les Dimensions de la réalité, Geneva, 1994, p. 144.
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti , New York, 2001, p. 78 (another cast illustrated on the cover; another cast illustrated again pp. 78 & n.p.; titled ‘Staggering Man (Amenophis)’).
C. Klemm, ed., Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001, no. 126, pp. 184 & 278 (another cast illustrated p. 186).
A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, writings, interviews , Barcelona, 2006, p. 110 (another cast illustrated p. 111).
L. Fritsch & F. Morris, eds., Giacometti, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2017, pp. 50 & 224 (another cast illustrated p. 225).
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4232.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Homme qui chavire
signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark ‘A. Giacometti 6/6 Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris’ (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 3/8 in. (59.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1950; this example, cast by Alexis Rudier in 1951, is one of six recorded casts
