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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Femme de Venise III
signed and numbered ‘5/6 Alberto Giacometti’ (on the left side of the base) and inscribed with foundry mark ‘Susse F Paris’ (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 46 5/8 in. (118.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1956 and cast in 1958
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New York.
Galerie de l’Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.
Gilbert H. Kinney, Washington, D.C. (1973).
Arnold Herstand & Company, New York (February 1984).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, 15 February 1984).
Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano (acquired from the above, May 2000).
Kent Gallery, Inc. New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, May 2000.
Literature
H. Kramer, New York Times, 13 January 1966.
R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti New York, 1971, pp. 142-143 (another cast illustrated, p. 119).
Alberto Giacometti: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1974, pp. 24-25.
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti Paris, 1978, no. 87.
B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti Paris, 1984, pp. 144-145.
J. Lord, Giacometti: A Biography, New York, 1985, pp. 355-357.
Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti A Biography of his Work, Paris, 1991, p. 402 (another cast illustrated in color, pl. 378).
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4456.
Exhibited
Lugano, Galleria Pieter Coray, Alberto Giacometti March-May 1984, no. 7 (detail illustrated).
Kunsthalle Vienna; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and London, Royal Academy of Art, Alberto Giacometti February 1996-January 1997, pp. 24 and 176, no. 176 (illustrated, p. 176; illustrated again in color, pl. 60).
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and Tochigi, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti February-July 1997, p. 86, no. 39 (illustrated).
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Alberto Giacometti June-October 1998, p. 101, no. 74 (illustrated, p. 63, fig. 35).
Seattle, Pivot Art + Culture, The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor 1955-2015, December 2015-February 2016, pp. 10 and 19 (illustrated in color, p. 18).
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