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Le Chat by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

Le Chat, 1951

Bronze
Sculpture
Edition of 8
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Momentum 12M
4.1%
CAGR
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (05 May 2009)
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Past Sales
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
May 5, 2009Le Chat7
Sotheby'sNew York
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

80 cm (31.5 in)

Materials

bronze

Signature

Inscribed Alberto Giacometti, stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondr Paris and numbered 7/8

Provenance

Private Collection, France. Heinz Berggruen, Paris. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Joachim Jean Aberbach, New York (acquired from the above in February 1960). Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Hanover Gallery, London (acquired from the above in July 1965). Gimpel Hanover Gallery, Zürich (acquired from the above in March 1967). Galerie Burén, Stockholm (on consignment). Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1967

Literature

Francis Ponge, "Réflexions sur les statuettes, figures et peintures d'Alberto Giacometti", Cahiers d'Art, no. 444, Paris, 1951, illustration of the plaster p. 74. Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti: Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen, Zurich, 1958, illustration of the plaster p. 117. Palma Bucarelli, Giacometti, Rome, 1962, no. 45, illustration of another cast . James Lord, A Giacometti Portrait, New York, 1965, p. 21. Franz Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existentieller Wirklichkeit, Stuttgart, 1968, p. 162. Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart, 1971, illustration of the plaster p. 121. Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, no. 202, illustration of another cast p. 142. Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alberto Giacometti, 1991, illustration of another cast p. 23. Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, biographie d'une oeuvre, Paris, 1991, no. 342, illustration of another cast p. 369. Ernst Scheidegger, Traces d'une amitié, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1991, illustration of another cast pp. 140-141. L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007-08, no. 16, illustration of the plaster in color p. 31