Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)
Lot 1201 ALBERTO + DIEGO GIACOMETTI:
MASTERS OF DESIGN

“What they shared was a feeling for form and scale, a deep respect for craft, a boundless passion for work and a profound sense—instilled in them not by modernism but by the awesome and capricious Bergell Valley in which they were raised—that change and continuity were inseparable” (Michael Brenson, New York Times, June 21, 1985).

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED FRENCH COLLECTION

Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)

Chat maître d'hôtel

Closed17 November 2016

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USD 187,500

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Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)
Chat maître d'hôtel
signed 'Diego' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown and red patina
Height: 11 5/8 in. (30 cm.)
Conceived in 1967

Count Lionel de Tinguy du Pouët, Paris (acquired from the artist, circa 1978).
By descent from the above to the present owner, circa 1981.