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LA CAGE (PREMIÈRE VERSION) by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

LA CAGE (PREMIÈRE VERSION), 1949

Bronze
Sculpture
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (30 Jun 2020)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jun 30, 2020
Sotheby'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale1020
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LA CAGE (PREMIÈRE VERSION)
Sep 28, 2002
Christie'sParisA Collection of Sculptures by Alberto Giacometti13
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LA CAGE (PREMIÈRE VERSION)
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

91.1 cm (35.88 in)

Materials

Bronze

Provenance

Annette Giacometti, Paris

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1991)

Private Collection (acquired by 1998)

Private Collection (and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, May 11, 1999, lot 146)

Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, 1994-95

Hiroshima, Prefectural Art Museum; Shizuoka, Prefectural Museum of Art & Ashikaga, Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti, 1997, no. 21

Literature

Letter from Giacometti to Pierre Matisse, in Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1950, mentioned p. 10

Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1989, illustration of another cast pp. 42-43

Ernst Beyeler & William Rubin, et al., Fondation Beyeler, Munich & New York, 1997, no. 43, another cast catalogued p. 311

Michael Peppiatt, Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris, New Haven & London, 2001, illustration of another cast p. 68

Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, 2004-05, illustration of another cast p. 24

The Women of Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Pace Wildenstein, New York & Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2005-06, illustration of another cast p. 65

Véronique Wiesinger & Bo Nilsson, Alberto Giacometti. Partial reprint with corrections, Stockholm, 2006, illustration of another cast p. 51

Véronique Wiesinger & Bo Nilsson, Alberto Giacometti. Bror Hjorth, Stockholm, 2006, illustration of another cast p. 50

Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), The Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2006, illustration of another cast p. 106

Raum. Orte der Kunst (exhibition catalogue), Akademie der Künste, Berlin & Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2007, illustration of another cast p. 240

Véronique Wiesinger, Giacometti. La Figure au défi, Paris, 2007, illustration of the plaster p. 58

L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti: The Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007-08, no. 226, illustration of the painted plaster p. 143

Véronique Wiesinger & Charlotte van Lingen, Alberto Giacometti, Harderwijk, 2008, illustration of another cast p. 120

Alberto Giacometti: The Origins of Space (exhibition catalogue), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg & Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, 2010-11, illustration of another cast pp. 30 & 117

Sartre, Alberto Giacometti, Sao Paulo, 2012, illustration of another cast p. 42

David Ekserdjian, Bronze, London, 2012, illustration of another cast p. 242

Véronique Wiesinger, Giacometti, Sao Paulo, 2012, illustration of another cast pp. 110-11

Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Museo Picasso, Malaga 2012, illustration of another cast p. 259

The Desire for Freedom (exhibition catalogue), Berlin Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin & Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2012, illustrations of another cast pls. 177-78 & p. 316

Guy Tosatto & Véronique Wiesinger, "La Cage ouverte" in Beaux Quartiers, Grenoble, no. H.S., Spring 2013, illustration of another cast p. 25

Alberto Giacometti. Espace, tête, figure (exhibition catalogue), Actes Sud, Arles; Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris & Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, 2013, illustration of another cast p. 37

Timothy Mathews, Alberto Giacometti, London, 2014, illustrations of another cast pl. 1 & p. 18

Giacometti Without End (exhibition catalogue), Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, 2014, illustration of another cast p. 57

Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Tate Modern, London, 2017, illustrations of the plaster pp. 223-23

Description

this example cast in 1990.