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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 19, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Property from the Collection of Nelson Rockefeller: Eastern Traditions & Western Visions | 7 | $****** - ****** | Pair of Andirons |
design
33.7 x 29.2 x 37.8 cm (13.25 x 11.5 x 14.88 in)
gilt bronze, iron
each impressed MADE IN FRANCE
Commissioned directly from the artist by Jean-Michel Frank for Nelson Rockefeller, 1939
Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969, p. 20 (for the model in situ in the Rockefeller 810 Fifth Avenue apartment)
Van Day Truex, "Jean-Michel-Frank Remembered," Architectural Digest , September-October 1976, pp. 74-75 (for the model in situ )
Malcolm N. Carter, "Nelson Rockefeller: "I know exactly what I like"," ARTnews , May 1978, p. 116 (for the model in situ )
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank , Paris, 1980, p. 45 (for the model in situ )
Dorothy Canning Miller, ed., The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Modern Art , New York, 1981, cover (for the model in situ )
Michel Butor, Diego Giacometti , Paris, 1985, p. 101
Alberto et Diego Giacometti , exh. cat., Galerie L"Arc en Seine, Paris, 1994, p. 25
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank , Paris, 1997, pp. 45 (for the model in situ ) and 104
Anne Bony, Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s , Paris, 2002, n.p. (for the model in situ )
Christian Boutonnet, Diego Giacometti, exh. cat., Galerie L"Arc en Seine, Paris, 2003, p. 53
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank , Paris, 2006, p. 185 (for the model in situ )
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco Period , Paris, 2006, p. 185 (for the model in situ )
Jean-Michel Frank: Un Décorateur dans les Paris des Années 30 , exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, p. 67 (for the model in situ )
Laure Verchère , Jean-Michel Frank , New York, 2018, pp. 267-268 (for the model in situ )
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Pair of Andirons
each impressed MADE IN FRANCE
from the Rockefeller 810 Fifth Avenue apartment
designed circa 1933
executed in 1939
gilt bronze, iron
13 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 14 7/8 in. (34 x 29 x 38 cm) each
This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database under number 4276.
