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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2025 | Le Couple | 3 | Christie's | New York | |||
sculpture
59.7 x 38.7 cm (23.5 x 15.25 in)
bronze with brown and green patina
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark "A. Giacometti 3/6 Susse Fondeur Paris" (on the back of the base)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist, 1958).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (acquired from the above, 1982 and until 2010).
PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 15 January 2010.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism , October-November 1979, pp. 122-123, no. 71 (illustrated, p. 122).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection , July-August 1991.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti , October 2001-January 2002, pp. 62 and 268 (illustrated, pl. 20 and p. 268).
Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, L"atelier d"Alberto Giacometti , October 2007-February 2008, p. 401, no. 83 (illustrated in color, p. 282; dated 1955).
D. Sylvester, Alberto Giacometti , exh. cat., Arts Council Gallery, London, 1955, no. 2 (another cast illustrated, pl. VI).
W. Hofmann, Die Plastik des 20. Jahrhunderts , Frankfurt, 1958, p. 139.
E. Scheidegger, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen , Zurich, 1958, p. 81 (another cast illustrated, p. 100).
P. Bucarelli, Giacometti , Rome, 1962, no. 3 (another cast illustrated).
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1962, p. 192 (another cast illustrated).
F. Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit , Stuttgart, 1968, p. 50.
C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1970, pp. 20 and 123 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 21).
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Stuttgart, 1971, p. 38 (plaster version illustrated).
A. Bovi, Giacometti , Florence, 1974, pp. 7 and 89 (another cast illustrated in color, pl. 5).
M.F. Brenson, "The Early Works of Alberto Giacometti: 1925-1935," Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1974, pp. 35-36 and 222 (titled Figures ).
S.M. Poley, "Alberto Giacomettis Umsetzung archaischer Gestaltungstormen in seinem Werk zwischen 1925 und 1935" in J ahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen , vol. 22, 1977, pp. 175-186 (another cast illustrated, p. 177).
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti , Paris, 1984, p. 31 (another cast illustrated, fig. 42).
J. Lord, Giacometti: A Biography , New York, 1986, p. 94 (another cast illustrated, pl. 4).
C. Juliet, Giacometti, New York, 1986, p. 17 (plaster version illustrated).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work , Paris, 1991, pp. 137-138, no. 126 (plaster version illustrated, p. 137; another cast illustrated in color, p. 139).
T. Dufrêne, Alberto Giacometti: Les dimensions de la réalité , Geneva, 1994, pp. 21, 23, 25-27 and 30.
D. Sylvester, Looking at Giacometti, London, 1994, p. 39.
J. Soldini, Alberto Giacometti: La somiglianza introvabile , Milan, 1998, pp. 31, 33-36 and 282, no. 21 (another cast illustrated, pl. VII).
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti , New York, 2001, p. 76 (another cast illustrated; illustrated again).
J. Dupin, Giacometti: Three Essays , New York, 2003, pp. 39-40.
A. González, Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews , New York, 2006, pp. 23-24 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 22).
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Le Couple
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark "A. Giacometti 3/6 Susse Fondeur Paris" (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
23 ½ x 15 ¼ in. (59.7 x 38.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1926; this bronze version cast in 1958
