Property from a Canadian Family Collection
Alberto Giacometti
Petit buste d'homme
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Petit buste d’homme
inscribed A. Giacometti and numbered 2/6 (on the back)
bronze
height: 22.5 cm. 8 ⅞ in.
Conceived in 1950; this example cast by🦋 Alexis Rudier Fondeur in 1951. This work is number 2 from an edition of 7 examples.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto G꧅iacometti database as AGD 4591.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Private Co🍌llection, Ca𝓡nada (acquired from the above on 6 December 1967)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Palma Bucarelli, Giacometti, Maestri del XX Secolo, Rome, 1962,🐓 no. 47, n.p., the plaster illustrate𒁃d