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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2017 | Homme (Apollon) | 6 | Christie's | London | |||
| Feb 4, 2015 | Homme (Apollon) | 1 | Christie's | London | |||
| May 6, 2008 | Homme (Apollon) | Christie's | New York | ||||
sculpture
40 cm (15.75 in)
bronze with golden brown patina
signed, dated and numbered '6/6 Alberto Giacometti 1929' (on the back)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Dallas.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by October 1967.
Private Collection, Palo Alto.
Anon. sale, Christie’s London, 29 November 1989, lot 537.
Waddington Galleries, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (acquired from the above in 1993).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Giacometti, 1962-1963, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 2).
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Idole und Damonen, 1963, no. 37 (illustrated).
Kassel, Documenta III, Giacometti, 1964, no. 10 (illustrated).
Santa Barbara, University of California, Art Galleries, Sculpture - 20s and 30s, 1972, no. 23.
Santa Cruz, University of California, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Modern Sculpture, 1977.
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Twentieth Century Sculpture, 1978.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Modern European Sculpture 1918 - 1945 Unknown Beings and Other Realities, 1979, no. 23 (illustrated, fig. 3). This exhibition later travelled to Minneapolis, Institute of Arts and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, Tàpies. Lo sguardo dell'artista, 2013, p. 66 (illustrated in colour, unpaged; illustrated, p. 66).
M. Leiris, 'Alberto Giacometti', in Documents, September 1929, p. 214, no. 4 (the plaster version illustrated).
P. Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome 1962, p. 76, no. 11 (another cast illustrated, p. 95).
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1962 (the plaster version illustrated, p. 201).
Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, exh. cat., New York 1962, p. 215, no. 166 (another cast illustrated, p. 110).
Giacometti, exh. cat., Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1963, no. 12 (another cast exhibited, illustrated).
F. Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit, Stuttgart 1968, p. 60.
C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1970, p. 124 (another cast illustrated, p. 28)
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne 1971, p. 52 (another cast illustrated).
Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1974, p. 60, no. 19 (another cast exhibited, illustrated).
A. Lerner (ed.), The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York 1974, p. 695, no. 342 (another cast illustrated, p. 246).
Gauguin to Moore, Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, exh. cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981, p. 230, no. 102 (another cast illustrated, p. 231).
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1984, p. 44, no. 61 (another cast illustrated).
C. Juliet, Giacometti, Paris 1985, p. 20 (another cast illustrated).
C. Klemm (ed.), Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Zurich 1990, pp. 153-154, no. 22 (another cast illustrated, p. 67).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A biography of his work, Paris 1991, pp. 163-164, no. 156 (the plaster version illustrated, p. 164).
G. Didi-Huberman, Le cube et le visage, Autour d’une sculpture d’Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1993, p. 82 (dated ‘1930’).
T. Dufrêne, Alberto Giacometti: Les Dimensions de la réalité, Geneva 1994, p. 24.
J. Soldini, Alberto Giacometti, La somiglianza introvabile, Milan 1998, pp. 39 and 238.
Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Alberto Giacometti, 2001-2002, p. 269, no. 29 (another cast exhibited, the plaster version illustrated, p. 75).
A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews, Barcelona 2006, p. 26 (the plaster version illustrated, p. 27).
A. Schneider (ed.), Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Munich 2008, p. 96, no. 17 (another cast illustrated).
Picasso-Giacometti, exh. cat., Paris, Musée National Picasso, 2016-2017, pp. 112 and 263, no. 44 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 112).
Giacometti, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2017, p. 294 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 153).
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 3764.
this bronze version cast in 1954 in an edition of six plus one
