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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2022 | Stèle II | 4 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
165.1 cm (65 in)
bronze
inscribed A. Giacometti , numbered 4/6 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Eleonor Bruce, Huttington, New York (acquired in February 1960)
Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Cohen, New York (sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, October 23, 1974, lot 265)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner, on January 19, 1983
Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, pp. 286-87, illustrated (another cast)
Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti , Geneva, 1970, p. 82, illustrated (another cast installed at the 1962 Venice Biennale)
Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti , Stuttgart, 1971, p. 259, illustrated (plaster)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Alberto Giacometti, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1974, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti Exposition au Japon , 1983, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen - Gemalde - Zeichnungen - Graphik , 1987, p. 279, illustrated (another cast)
Herbert and Mercedes Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, pp. 122, 132-33, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Alberto Giacometti , 1990-91, pl. 238, illustrated in color (another cast)
Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work , Paris, 1991, p. 386, illustrated in color (another cast)
Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Giacometti Sculpture , 1993, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., New York, Acquavella Galleries , Alberto Giacometti Retrospective , 1994, illustrated (another cast)
Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings , Munich and New York, 1994, pl. 44, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Kunsthalle and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, 1996, p. 178, illustrated (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti, Collection de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti , 2007-08, p. 365, illustrated (plaster)
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, Giacometti, 2017, p. 260, illustrated (plaster)
Alberto Giacometti
1901 - 1966
Stèle II
inscribed A. Giacometti , numbered 4/6 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
bronze
Height: 65 in.
165.3 cm
Conceived in 1958 and cast in 1961.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti and it is recorded in the Alberto Giacometti database as AGD4330.
