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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2024 | Buste (Tête tranchante) (Diego) | 1 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
33.3 cm (13.13 in)
bronze
inscribed Alberto Giacometti , numbered 1/6, dated 1953 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fond. Paris
Pierre Matisse Gallery (acquired directly from the artist in September 1954)
Harry Frank Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the above on 22 March 1955)
Nassau County, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1971)
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York (from the above)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting, Drawings and Sculpture , 1955, n.n. (titled Head of Man (Diego) and dated 1953)
“Sculpture: Spindles and Chaos,” Newsweek Magazine , vol. 45, no. 25, 20 June 1955, p. 58, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti , 1965, no. 45, pp. 51-52, illustration of another cast in color; p. 116 (titled Head of Diego )
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Paintings Drawings 1913-1965 , 1965, no. 54, fig. 11, n.p., illustration of another cast (titled Head of Diego )
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée de l"Orangerie, Alberto Giacometti , 1969-70, p. 151 (titled Diego au blouson )
Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Giacometti: Giovanni, Augusto, Alberto, Diego , 1987, no. 42, p. 78, illustration of another cast; p. 170 (titled Busto de Diego )
Mercedes Matter and Herbert Matter, Alberto Giacometti , New York, 1987, pp. 97 and 110-15 illustration of another cast (titled Bust of Diego and dated 1954)
Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Alberto Giacometti , 1990, no. 24, pp. 52-53, illustrations of another cast; p. 135 (titled Buste de Diego and dated 1954)
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of his Work , Paris, 1991, fig. 423, p. 441, illustration of another cast
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti , New York, 2001, n.p., illustration of another cast (in the artist"s studio)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, L"Atelier d"Alberto Giacometti: Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti , 2007-08, p. 394, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Alberto Giacometti: The Origin of Space , 2010-11, p. 52, illustration of another cast (in installation image of the Museum of Modern Art 1965 exhibition)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Giacometti , 2018, fig. 1, p. 21, illustrated (in installation image of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1955 exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Cleveland Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure , 2022-23, fig. 3b, p. 19, illustration of another cast (in installation image of the Museum of Modern Art 1965 exhibition); p. 137, illustration of another cast (with the artist in his studio)
Property from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Alberto Giacometti
(1901-1966)
Buste (Tête tranchante) (Diego)
inscribed Alberto Giacometti , numbered 1/6, dated 1953 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fond. Paris
bronze
height: 13 ⅛ in.
33.5 cm.
Conceived circa 1953 and cast in 1954.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4656.
