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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
signed and dated 'Alberto Giacometti 1964' (lower right)
pencil on paper
50 x 33cm (19 11/16 x 13in).
Executed in 1964
Footnotes
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti.
Provenance
Bruno Giacometti Collection, Zollikon (the artist's brother).
Pieter Coray, Lugano.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen, Bern, 17 September 2021, lot 63.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale).
Exhibited
Lugano, Galleria Pieter Coray, Alberto Giacometti, 30 March – 12 May 1984, no. 32 (titled 'Lampada e tavolo').
Literature
Fondation Giacometti, Giacometti's Artworks, Alberto Giacometti Database (AGD), online catalogue, no. AGD 3450 (illustrated).
To live with Giacometti... is to look future in the eye and acknowledge that, although art saves us temporarily from oblivion, we are ultimately doomed to relinquish its redemption. Thus, the greatest art transcends understanding and compels its admirers to realize that the source of their appreciation is an enigma. Giacometti's art is of that degree of greatness. It is a solitary degree, because no one else during his lifetime approached creativity with such a fearless dedication to truth, and in its solitude, standing sublime upon its eminence, it sheds a terrible beauty upon our insignificant lives.
- James Lord, quoted in the 1995 catalogue for the exhibition Alberto Giacometti, La collezione di un amatore, held at the Galleria Pieter Coray in Lugano.
