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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Lot 587 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Portrait de René Char

Closed5 February 2008

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GBP 66,500

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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Portrait de René Char
signed, dated and inscribed 'René Char 29 juin 1964 Alberto Giacometti.' (lower right)
pen and ink on paper
22¼ x 15 in. (56.4 x 38.3 cm.)
Executed on 29 June 1964

René Char, Paris.
Edwin Engelberts, Geneva.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 25 June 1999, lot 48.
Acquired at the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Association Alberto and Annette Giacometti and Mary Lisa Palmer.

The French poet René Char (1907-1988) was a close friend of Alberto Giacometti. The artist executed etchings to illustrate two of Char's books, Poèmes des deux années, 1953-1954 (Paris, 1955) and Retour Amont (Paris, 1965).