Alberto Giacometti

inscribed Alberto Giacometti, numbered 5/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris

height: 58 cm; 22⅞ in.

Théodore Fraenkel, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Léna Leclercq, France (bequest from the above)

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired by May 1965)

The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, New York

Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2014, lot 35 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Christie’s, New York, 11 May 2023, lot 53 A (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owners

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Alberto Giacometti: Sculture, dipinti, disegni, 995, no. 78, pp. 238-39, illustrated 

Jean-Raoul Moulin, Giacometti: Sculptures, Paris, 1964, no. 24, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti, 1965, no. 71, p. 64, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti:Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings 1913-65, 1965, pl. 34, no. 87, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries, Alberto Giacometti, 1969-70, no. 110, p. 82, another cast illustrated

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1971, pl. 263, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974, no, 103, p. 120, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery; Bristol, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and London, Serpentine Gallery, Giacometti, Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings, 1981, no. 33, another cast illustrated

Ronald Alley, ed., Collection of the Tate Gallery’s Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, London, 1981, p. 283, no. T.778, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat, Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti, 1983, no. 193, another cast illustrated

Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 155, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Norwich, University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Alberto Giacometti: The Last Two Decades, 1984, no. 14, another cast illustrated

James Lord, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography, New York, 1985, n.n., n.p., another cast illustrated

Herbert Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York 1987, p. 172 and 179, plaster cast illustrated; p. 181, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Alberto Giacometti: 1901-1966, 1988, no. 100, p. 230, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin –Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen, Gemalde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, 1987-88, no. 235, p. 314, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Alberto Giacometti, 1990, no. 248, p. 539, another cast illustrated

Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, fig. 517, p. 512, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti:The Artist’s Studio, 1991, p. 45, another cast illustrated

Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture,Paintings, Drawings, New York, 1994, no. 144, another cast illustrated

Jean Soldini, Alberto Giacometti: La Somiglianza introvabile, Milan, 1998, p. 141

Exh. Cat., Singapore Museum of Art, The Millenium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 1999, p. 62ff, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Art Focus, Alberto Giacometti: A Selection of Sculptures, Paintings, and Works on Paper, 1999, p. 38, another cast illustrated; p. 84, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthaus Zurich, Alberto Giacometti, 2001, no. 179, p. 240, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Wildenstein and Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, The Women of Giacometti, 2005-06, p. 85, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Alberto Giacometti, The Origin of Space, 2011, fig. 16, p. 196, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., London, National Portrait Gallery, Giacometti:Pure Presence, 2016, no. 34, p. 116-7, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Nice, Galerie Lympia, Alberto Giacometti: The Late Work, 2017, p. 38-39, another cast illustrated