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Lot 383
  • 383

Alberto Giacometti

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Alberto Giacometti
  • Portrait de Pierre Reverdy de profil droit
  • Stylo Bille on paper mounted on card
  • 11 1/4 by 9 in.
  • 28.4 by 22.7 cm

Provenance

Madame Teriade
Acquired from the above in 1989

Exhibited

Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Culture Chanel, 2011, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Beijing, The National Art Museum of China, Culture Chanel, 2011, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Alexander Dückers, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski (exhibition catalogue), Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 1999, illustrated p. 403
Phillip Rylands, The Timeless Eye, Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowsky Collection (exhibition catalogue), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, 1999, illustrated p. 403

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper laid down on card. Sheet is taped to a window mat at center of top and bottom edge on verso. Evidence of a prior mounting on verso and a numbered inscription in pencil. There is a soft crease with a few possible restorations running diagonally across the upper right quadrant and there are a few tiny nicks and repaired tears around the perimeter. Sheet is slightly time darkened. This work is in good condition.
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