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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2024 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 37A | $****** - ****** | Femme qui marche (II) |
sculpture
146.1 cm (57.5 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed, dated and numbered ‘0 Alberto Giacometti 1932-36" (on top of the base)
Prof. Serafino Corbetta, Chiavenna (acquired from the artist).
Anon. sale, Sotheby"s, London, 26 March 1985, lot 46.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 20 December 1985.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Alberto Giacometti , June-September 1990, pp. 28 and 134, no. 6 (illustrated, p. 29; titled Femme sans tête ).
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Alberto Giacometti: Werke und Schriften , October 1998-January 1999, p. 329, no. 13 (illustrated, p. 38; titled Femme sans tête ).
P. Guggenheim, Art of this Century , New York, 1942, p. 120 (plaster version illustrated).
F. Stahly, "Der Bildhauer Alberto Giacometti" in Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst , vol. 37, no. 6, June 1950, p. 184 (plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio; dated 1934 and titled Figur ).
P. Guggenheim, Confessions of an Art Addict , London, 1960, pp. 73 and 131-134 (plaster version illustrated).
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1962, p. 217 (plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio; dated 1932, titled Nu and with incorrect medium).
N. and E. Calas, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art , New York, 1966, pp. 8 and 185, no. 119 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, p. 191; titled Nude ).
C. Giedion-Welcker, "Alberto Giacometti: Auf siener Suche nach Wahrheit" in Das Kunstwerk , vol. XX , nos. 1-2, October-November 1966, p. 7 (plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio; dated 1934 and titled Figure ).
T.S. Evans, ed., Alberto Giacometti and America , New York, 1984, p. 67 (plaster version illustrated, p. 66; titled Headless Woman ).
A.Z. Rudenstine , The Peggy Guggenheim Collection , Venice , New York, 1985, pp. 336-341, no. 67 (plaster version illustrated, p. 337; plaster version illustrated again in situ in the artist"s studio, p. 340, figs. c and d; dated 1932).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of his Work , Paris, 1991, p. 539, no. 557 (plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio; titled Woman without a Head ).
C. di Crescenzo and F. Monteforte, Alberto Giacometti: Percorsi Lombardi , Verona, 2005, pp. 21 and 48 (illustrated in situ in Professor Serafino Corbetta"s residence, p. 49; plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio, p. 20; plaster version illustrated again in situ in the 1948 Venice Biennale, p. 23).
V. Wiesinger , ed., L"atelier d"Alberto Giacometti: Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti , exh. cat., Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2007, pp. 110-111 (plaster version illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio, figs. 144 and 145).
E. Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Spuren einer Freundschaft , Zurich, 2013, p. 244, no. 145 (another cast illustrated in situ ).
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Femme qui marche (II)
signed, dated and numbered ‘0 Alberto Giacometti 1932-36" (on top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 57 ½ in. (146.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1932-1936; this bronze version cast in 1961
