Tête d’homme (Diego)

Details

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Tête d’homme (Diego)
signed ‘Alberto Giacometti.’ (lower right)
pencil on paper
10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (26 x 21 cm.)
Drawn circa 1955

来源

Walter Bick, Toronto.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 15 June 2007, no. 45.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 3690.

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拍品专文

‘The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.’
A. Giacometti, quoted in Y. Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work, Paris, 1991, p. 377.

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