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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2025 | Buste de Diego | 4 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
| May 11, 1994 | Buste de Diego | Sotheby's | New York | ||||
sculpture
36.8 cm (14.5 in)
bronze
inscribed A. Giacometti , numbered 4/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Harriet Weiner Goodstein, New York (acquired from the above in 1960)
Sotheby"s, New York, 11 May 1994, lot 53 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exh. Cat., London, Hanover Gallery, Giacometti, Marini, Matisse, Moore , 1958, no. 7, illustration of another cast
Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1962, p. 279, illustration of the plaster in its original state (titled Tête and dated 1957)
Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Verzameling Ella Winter , 1961-62, n.p., illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti. Sculpture Paintings Drawings 1913-1965 , 1965, no. 68 (titled Head and Shoulders and dated 1957)
David Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, London, 1994, pp. 77-79, illustration of the plaster in a later state (in a 1966 photograph of the artist"s studio)
Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti-Sculpture in Plaster , Zurich and Frankfurt, 2006, p. 84, illustration of the plaster in its original state; p. 112
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, The Studio of Alberto Giacometti , 2007-08, no. 215, p. 406, illustration of the plaster in a later state
Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti - Au-delà des bronzes , 2016-17, fig. 119, p. 151, illustration in color of the plaster in a later state
London, Tate Modern, Giacometti , 2017, p. 256, illustration in color of the plaster in a later state; p. 295
Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, Alberto Giacometti , 2018, n.p., illustration in color of the plaster in a later state
Exh. Cat., Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Alberto Giacometti, a retrospective. Marvelous reality , 2021, pp. 88-89, illustrations in color of the plaster in a later state
Exh. Cat., Paris, Institut Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti / Ali Cherri: Envisagement , 2024, p. 72, illustration in color of the plaster in a later state; p. 105, illustration of the plaster in a later state (in photograph of the work in storage)
The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving
Alberto Giacometti
(1901 - 1966)
Buste de Diego
inscribed A. Giacometti , numbered 4/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
bronze
height: 14 ½ in. 37 cm.
Conceived circa 1956 and cast between 1957-59.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4762.
