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La Place by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

La Place, 1948

Bronze
Sculpture
Edition of 6
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (07 May 2014)
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Past Sales
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
May 7, 2014La Place4
Sotheby'sNew York
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

62.2 cm (24.49 in)

Materials

bronze

Signature

Inscribed with the signature A. Giacometti, with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris and numbered 4/6

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist) Morton G. Neumann, New York (acquired from the above on March 12, 1951) Morton F. Neumann Family Collection (sold:

Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 2000, lot 37) Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Alberto Giacometti, 1970-71, illustrated in the catalogue p. 89 London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., Alberto Giacometti: Thirteen Bronzes, 1970, illustrated in the catalogue p. 25 New York, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti, 1974, illustrated in the catalogue p. 89 Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Giacometti: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings, 1981 (this exhibition was also shown in Bristol and London), illustrated in the catalogue p. 26 Zürich, Kunsthaus & New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, 2001-02, illustrated in the catalogue p. 161

Literature

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, New York, 1952, p. 211 Ernest Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti – Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen, Zürich, 1958, illustration of another cast p. 108 Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1963, illustration of another cast p. 243 Edward B. Henning, Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966, Cleveland, 1967, p. 106 Franz Meyer, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart, 1968, illustration of another cast pp. 156 & 166 Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Lausanne, 1970, p. 73 Bernard Lamache-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, illustration of another cast p. 128 Angelica Zandar Rudenstine, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice & New York, 1985, illustration of another cast pp. 352-354 Herbert Matter, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 59 Edward Dinsenberg, Film noir and the Spaces of Modernity, Cambridge, 2004, illustration of another cast p. 116 Timothy Mathews, Alberto Giacometti, The Art of Relation, London, 2014, illustration of another cast p. 228