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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2024 | Figure, dite cubiste I | 2 | Sotheby's | London | |||
| May 14, 1997 | Composition cubiste, Homme | Sotheby's | New York | ||||
sculpture
62.9 cm (24.76 in)
bronze
inscribed Alberto Giacometti , numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE
Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired by circa 1962-65)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Artcurial, Paris (acquired by 1991 and until at least 1996)
Sotheby"s, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 208
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie"s, London, 20 June 2006, lot 139 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Giacometti: skulpturer, malerier, tegninger , 1965, no. 5
Paris, Artcurial, Corps-Figures. La figuration humaine dans la sculpture du XXe siècle , 1989, p. 105, illustrated in colour (titled Composition cubiste. Homme and dated 1926-27)
Paris, Musée d"Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alberto Giacometti , sculptures, peintures, dessins , 1991-92, no. 26, p. 109, illustrated in colour (titled Composition cubiste (homme) and dated 1926-27)
Paris, Artcurial, Consonances peinture-sculpture: choix pour une collection , 1993, illustrated
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Alberto Giacometti: Sculture, Dipinti, Disegni , 1995, no. 6, p. 103, illustrated (titled Composition cubiste (Homme) and dated 1926)
Kunsthalle Vienna and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966 , 1996, no. 44, p. 139, illustrated in colour (titled Homme (Composition cubiste) and dated circa 1926-27)
“Alberto Giacometti,” Louisiana Revy , no. 1, September 1965, p. 6, illustrated
Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Teufen, 1971, no. 44, p. 306, illustration of another cast (titled Composition cubiste (Homme) and dated 1926)
Fondation Maeght, ed., Sculpture du XXe siècle , Saint Paul de Vence, 1981, no. 88, p. 113, illustration of another cast; p. 116 (text) (titled Composition cubiste and dated 1927)
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1984, no. 47, p. 36, illustration of another cast (titled Composition cubiste and dated 1926-27)
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Alberto Giacometti, Skulpturen-Gemälde-Zeichnungen-Graphik , 1987, p. 56, illustration of another cast
Karin von Maur, Alberto Giacometti , Berlin, 1987, p. 56, illustration of another cast
Ernst Scheidegger, Spuren einer Freundschaft , Zurich, 1990, p. 27
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Biographie d"une œuvre , Lausanne, 1991, no. 132, p. 141, illustration of another cast (titled Composition cubiste and dated 1926-27)
Casimiro Di Crescenzo, “On ne joues plus, 1932, di Alberto Giacometti,” Venezia arti , 1992, no. 43, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Yoshii Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Early Works in Paris (1922-1930) , 1994, p. 44, fig. 35, illustration of another version (titled Composition cubiste (Homme) and dated 1926)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, The Studio of Alberto Giacometti: The Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti , 2007, nos. 68-69, p. 82, illustrations of the plaster
Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti. Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings , Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2008, p. 54, illustration of another cast (titled Cubist Composition - Man and dated 1926-27)
Exh. Cat., London, Tate, Giacometti , 2017, p. 137, illustration in colour of the plaster
Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Giacometti, Giacometti: À la recherche des œuvres disparues (1920-1935) , 2020, p. 48, illustration in colour of the plaster
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Figure, dite cubiste I
inscribed Alberto Giacometti , numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE
bronze
height: 62.9 cm. 24¾ in.
Conceived circa 1926; this example cast in bronze by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris, circa 1962-65. This work is number 2 from an edition of 6.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD 4632.
