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La Clairière by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

La Clairière, 1950

Bronze with brown patina
59.4 x 132.3 cm (23.38 x 52.1 in)
Sculpture
Edition of 6
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (16 May 2018)
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Past Sales
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
May 16, 2018La Clairière5
Christie'sNew York
Feb 6, 2013La Clairière
Christie'sLondon
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

59.4 x 132.3 cm (23.38 x 52.1 in)

Materials

bronze with brown patina

Signature

signed and numbered 'A. Giacometti 5/6' (on the right side of the base), inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Foundeur Paris' (on the back of the base)

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the artist, circa 1952).

Private collection, Paris (acquired from the above); sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 22 June 1988, lot 48.

Jan Krugier Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale).

Acquired from the above by the late owners, 23 December 1999.

Exhibited

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Alberto Giacometti: A Loan Exhibition, October-December 1994, p. 113, no. 34 (illustrated, p. 64).

Literature

P. Bucarelli, Alberto Giacometti, Rome, 1962, p. 78, no. 43 (another cast illustrated, p. 122).

C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Geneva, 1970, p. 80 (another cast illustrated).

R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1971, p. 307, no. 125 (another cast illustrated, p. 125).

B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 134, no. 188 (another cast illustrated).

C. Juliet, Giacometti, Paris, 1985, p. 72 (another cast illustrated).

J. Lord, Giacometti: A Biography, New York, 1985, pp. 314, 329 and 335.

M. Leiris and J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti: Ecrits, Paris, 1990, pp. 51-52 and 59.

Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, pp. 349, 352-353, 364 and 372, no. 323 (another cast illustrated, p. 350).

G. Soavi and P. Knapp, Giacometti, Paris, 1991, p. 112 (another cast illustrated, pp. 112-113).

A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, New York, 1994, no. 59 (another cast illustrated).

J. Russell, Matisse: Father and Son, New York, 1999, p. 168.

J.-P. Sartre, Alberto Giacometti, Sao Paulo, 2012 (another cast illustrated).

T. Mathews, Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Relation, London, 2014, pp. 191-194 (another cast illustrated, p. 192, fig. 39).

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 3913.

Description

signed and numbered 'A. Giacometti 5/6' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Foundeur Paris' (on the back of the base)

bronze with brown patina

Height: 23 ⅜ in. (59.4 cm.)

Length: 25 ¾ in. (65.4 cm.)

Width: 20 ½ in. (52.1 cm.)

Conceived in 1950 and cast between 1950-1952