ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Tête cubiste ou Tête-crâne , Conceived in 1934 and executed in 1935
Plaster
18,4 x 19,8 x 22 cm ( 8,14 x 8,57 x 8,66 in.)
•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
•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
Provenance
- Private collection, Paris (gift from the artist)
- Private collection, Brussels (acquired from the above)
- Then by descents in 1966
Exhibitions
(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 august 1965, 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
- Exibition 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