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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Lot 219 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Tête d’homme (Diego)

Closed28 February 2018

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GBP 416,750

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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

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

Specialist note

‘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.