Live Auction 14240Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Lot 195

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Nature morte au bouquet de fleurs (recto) Etudes (verso)

Closed28 June 2017

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GBP 50,000

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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Nature morte au bouquet de fleurs (recto) Etudes (verso)
signed and dated ‘Alberto Giacometti 1946’ (recto; lower right)
pencil on paper
20 ¼ x 13 3/8 in. (51.5 x 34 cm.)
Executed in 1946

Paul Camille Jacob, Paris.
Private collection, Geneva; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 2013, lot 46.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The drawings on the reverse of the present lot are probably, for the most part, studies for Le vide Poche, executed in plaster in 1930-31 (see: sale, Christie’s, Paris, 1 December 2009, lot 119).