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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2022 | Homme (Apollon) | 4 | Christie's | New York | |||
sculpture
39.4 x 29.8 cm (15.5 x 11.75 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed, dated and numbered 'Alberto Giacometti 1929 4/6' (on the back)
Pierre Matisse, New York.
By descent from the above to the present owner.
New York, Yoshii Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Early Works in Paris, 1922-1930 , April-June 1994, pp. 56 and 131 (illustrated, pl. 8; plaster version illustrated in situ in the Documents Marc Vaux 1929 photograph, p. 57, fig. 45).
M. Leiris, "Alberto Giacometti" in Documents , no. 4, September 1929, pp. 210 and 214 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 214).
P. Bucarelli, Giacometti , Rome, 1962, p. 75, no. 11 (another cast illustrated, p. 95).
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1962, p. 201 (plaster version illustrated).
H. Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture , New York, 1964, p. 293, no. 140 (another cast illustrated, p. 143).
G. Régnier, "Alberto Giacometti" in La Revue du Louvre , vol. 19, no. I, 1969, p. 292.
C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1970, p. 124 (another cast illustrated, p. 28).
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Stuttgart, 1971, pp. 79 and 307 (another cast illustrated, p. 52).
M. Brenson, The Early Work of Alberto Giacometti: 1925-1935 , Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974, pp. 45, 47, 67, 117, 139, 159, 175 and 233-234 (plaster version illustrated, fig. 25).
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition , exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1974, pp. 20 and 60, no. 19 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1984, p. 44, no. 61 (another cast illustrated).
C. Juliet, Giacometti , Paris, 1985, p. 20 (another cast illustrated).
P. Beye and D. Honisch, Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1987, pp. 59-60 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).
V. Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1988, pp. 24 and 84, no. 11 (another cast illustrated, p. 85).
K.M. de Barañano, Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1990, pp. 54 and 378, no. 156 (another cast illustrated, p. 379).
C. Klemm, Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung , Zurich, 1990, pp. 67 and 153-154, no. 22 (another cast illustrated, p. 67).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of his Work , Paris, 1991, p. 163, no. 156 (plaster version illustrated, p. 164).
S. Pagé, Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, peintures, dessins , exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1991, p. 132, no. 44 (another cast illustrated).
A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings , New York, 1994, pp. 55-56 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 15; other casts illustrated, p. 57 and pl. 17).
D. Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti , New York, 1994, p. 42.
T. Stooss and P. Elliott, Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 145, no. 64 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 14, fig. 10; another cast illustrated, p. 145).
C. Klemm, et al., Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001, pp. 18, 74 and 268, no. 29 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 19, fig. 5; plaster version illustrated, p. 75; another cast illustrated, p. 268).
L. Wilson, Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man , New Haven, 2003, pp. 28 and 98 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 98, fig. 5.1).
A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews , Barcelona, 2006, pp. 26 and 28-29 (plaster version illustrated in situ at Galerie Pierre in 1929, p. 32).
M. Fontanella and K.P.B. Vail, eds., Giacometti , exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018, pp. 27 and 60 (another cast illustrated, p. 60).
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4461.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Homme (Apollon)
signed, dated and numbered 'Alberto Giacometti 1929 4/6' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 15 1/2 in. (39.3 cm.)
Length: 11 3/4 in. (30 cm.)
Conceived in 1929 and cast in 1954
