ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) - FORMER PAROUÏR... Lot 43

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) - FORMER PAROUÏR BEGLARIAN COLLECTION (THEN BY DESCENT) Figure commonly known as Tête de femme, the model created around [1933-1934]. Floor lamp base. Proof in bronze with a rich brown patina shaded with antique green. Monogrammed and numbered AG077 on the stack by the Giacometti Committee on the back of the base towards the power supply. Height: 155cm Important notice: This work has been included in the artist's catalog raisonné and referenced in the Alberto Giacometti Database under number AGD 4618 by the Giacometti Foundation. A document from the Giacometti Foundation for the inclusion of this work in the artist's catalog raisonné and its referencing in the Alberto Giacometti Database will be given to the purchaser. Provenance: - Parouïr Beglarian. Businessman (Société des Pétroles d'Outre-mer; owner of a fleet specializing in the transport of hydrocarbons), major collector (and lender to institutions) of 20th-century art, particularly Surrealist works by Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró and others. A close friend of Diego Giacometti, as Daniel Marchesseau points out in his book on the Swiss artist, and of Christian Bérard, as evidenced by a drawing dedicated by the artist (who died in 1949) with the words: À Parouïr de tout cœur. This eternally curious art enthusiast was interested in the work of Eduardo Chilida and Simon Hantaï (cf. Ader sale May 17, 2024) and, more generally, in most of the avant-garde pictorial movements of the 1950s to 1980s. Client of Galerie Maeght and Galerie Fournier, member of the Association pour la défense des vitraux de France founded by Bazaine, Manessier, Bertholle, Hartung, Soulages and others. - By descent. Bibliography: - Art et Décoration - N°3 of 1936. Identical model reproduced on page 98 in an article devoted to Jean-Michel Frank by Waldemar George. - Mobilier et Décoration - N°3, April 1953. Identical model reproduced on page 40. - Léopold Diego Sanchez - Jean-Michel Frank - Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1980. Identical model reproduced on pages 107 and 204. - Michel Butor - Diego Giacometti - Éditions Adrien Maeght, Paris, 1985. Identical model reproduced on page 125. - Daniel Marchesseau - Diego Giacometti - Éditions Hermann, Paris, 1986. Identical model reproduced on page 11. - François Baudot - Diego Giacometti - Éditions Assouline, Paris, 1998. Identical model reproduced on page 34. - Françoise Francisci - Diego Giacometti; catalog de l'œuvre, volume I - Éditions Éolia, Paris, 1986. Identical model reproduced in this work without pagination. - Christian Boutonnet and Rafael Ortiz - Diego Giacometti - Éditions de l'Amateur/Galerie L'Arc-en-Seine, Paris, 2003. Identical model reproduced on page 34. - Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier - Jean-Michel Frank - Éditions Norma, Paris, 2006. Identical models reproduced on pages 143, 198, 199 and 250.