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Alberto Giacometti
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description
- Alberto Giacometti
- Portrait of Douglas Cooper
- Signed, dated and inscribed Alberto Giacometti, Paris le 8 mai 1956, Essai d'un portrait de Douglas Cooper en souvenir d'un voyage de noce (lower left)
- Pencil on paper
- 25 3/8 by 19 3/4 in.
- 64.5 by 50 cm
Provenance
Helene S. Thompson (acquired directly from the artist and sold: Sotheby's New York, May 19, 1983, lot 257)
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1983
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1983
Catalogue Note
Douglas Cooper remembers sitting for the🅠 artist approximately six times within a ten day period in Paris in 1956. Another closely related drawing from these sittings is in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New♒ York.