Tête cubiste ou Tête-crâne
Signed, dated and inscribed underneath: Giacometti PARIS 1935
Plaster
18,4 x 19,8 x 22 cm ( 8,14 x 8,57 x 8,66 in.)
Conceived in 1934 and executed in 1935.
- The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation (june
2009).
It will be published in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné (n° 1247). - The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mrs Mary-Lisa Palmer (13 october 2009).
It will be published in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné
According to the Fondation Giacometti, “Tête cubiste” has been edited in plaster between 1934 and 1939.
We presently know 8 plaster and 1 terracotta
Provenance :
- Private collection, Paris (gift from the artist)
- Private collection, Brussels (acquired from the above)
- Then by descents in 1966
- Exhibited: (other plasters and bronze casts)
- Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Minotaure, 12 may-3 june 1934, (photographed by Man Ray)
- New York, Galerie Pierre Matisse, The Search for the Absolute, 19 january-14 february 1948
- Berne, Kunsthalle, Alberto Giacometti,16 june- 22 july 1956, n° 12 (bronze)
- Genève, Galerie Jan Krugier, Alberto Giacometti, 30 march- 15 july 1963, n°22
- London, The Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti-Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings, 1913-65,17 june-30 august1965, n° 18, illustrated p.10
- Bale, Kunsthalle, Giacometti, 25 june-28 august 1966, n° 32
- Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries, Alberto Giacometti, 24 october 1969-12 january 1970, n° 33
(bronze), illustrated p. 36 - New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Giacometti, a Retrospective Exhibition, 5 avril-
23 june 1974/Minneapolis/Ottawa/Des Moines/Montreal, n°35, illustrated p.73, n° 36 (bronze), illustrated p.
74, n° 34 (marbre), illustrated p.75 - Saint-Paul -de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Alberto Giacometti, 8 july-30 september 1978, n° 25 (bronze),
illustrated p.83 - Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Alberto Giacometti, 15 may-2 november 1986, n° 70, illustrated
p.266 - La Haye, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, 28 february- 11 may 1986, n°6
(bronze), illustrated p.82 - Washington,The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Alberto Giacometti
1901-1966, 15 september- 13 november 1988/San Francisco, 15 december 1988-5 february 1989, n° 22
(bronze), p.106, illustrated p.107 - Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alberto Giacometti, 30 november 1991-15 march 1992, n°
61, illustrated p. 154 - New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Alberto Giacometti-A Loan Exhibition, 27 october-10 december
1994, n°6 (bronze), illustrated p. 36 - Saint-Etienne, Musée d’Art moderne, Alberto Giacometti: la collection du Centre Georges Pompidou,
Musée National d’Art moderne, (exposition dans le cadre de “Hors les murs”), 1999, pp.106-107, p.108,
pp.203-204 ; illustrated n°30, pp. 109-111 - New York, Museum of Modern Art ( MoMa), Alberto Giacometti, 11 october 2001-8 january 2002/ Zürich,
Künsthaus, 18 may- 2 september 2001, illustrated n°62, p. 116; p.120 - Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, L’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti-Collection de la Fondation Alberto et
Annette Giacometti,17 october 2007-11 february 2008, n° 106, illustrated n°157, p. 116 - Riehen/Bale, Fondation Beyeler, Giacometti, 31 may-13 october 2009, n° 50, illustrated p. 80
Literature : (other plasters and bronze casts)
- E. Tériade, Aspects actuels de l’expression plastique, in Minotaure, n°5, Paris, Skira, 1934, photographed by
Man Ray (named « Tête d’homme »), p .40 - A. Giacometti, Lettre à Pierre Matisse, p. 40, illustrated p. 40 (ink sketch) ; liste complémentaire des
œuvres (pages numérotées de 1 à 6 à la fin de la lettre), p.4, illustrated p. 4 (ink sketch), in the exhibition
catalogue , New York, Galerie Pierre Matisse, The Search for the Absolute, 19 january-14 february 1948 - P. Bucarelli, Alberto Giacometti, Editalia,Roma, 1962, p. 19
- J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1962, pp. 222-223
- J. Lord, A Giacometti portrait,The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork, 1965, p. 19
- C. Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Ex Libris, Zurich, 1970, p. 44, illustrated p. 438
- R. Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Adams, New York, 1971, illustrated p. 72
- B. Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Nouvelles Editions Françaises, Paris, 1984, illustrated n° 103,
104, p.73 - Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: biographie d’une oeuvre, Flammarion, Paris, 1991, illustrated pp. 196-
197, pp.215-216 - E. Scheidegger, Traces d’une amitié, Alberto Giacometti, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1991, illustrated p.77,
p.112, p.120 (bronze) - G. Didi-Huberman, Le Cube et le visage : autour d’une sculpture d’Alberto Giacometti, Macula, Paris,
1993, illustrated p. 92 (ink impression executed in 1933), pp.96-97; pp.15-17, p.33, pp.78-79, pp. 94-98,
p.122 - T. Dufrene, Alberto Giacometti:les dimensions de la realité, Skira, Genève, 1994, pp. 78-79, p.92, p.101
- Exhibition catalogue, Seneffe, (Belgique), Orangerie du Domaine du château de Seneffe, Alberto
Giacometti, 15 october 2000-15 january 2001, p.24 - V. Wiesinger, Giacometti : la figure au défi, Gallimard, Paris, 2007, p. 46, illustrated p. 47