Height: 9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) Width: 9 ¼ in. (23.6 cm.)
Height: 9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) Width: 9 ¼ in. (23.6 cm.)
Diego Giacometti, Paris. James Lord, Paris. Private collection, Switzerland. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 October 1998, lot 62. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
F. Francisci, Diego Giacometti: Catalogue de l'œuvre, Paris, 1986, vol. I (another cast illustrated, pl. 35; titled Tête de gorgonne II). L.D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, p. 29 (plaster illustrated in situ in Frank and Chanaux’s workshop). The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4479.
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