Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966). Woman in... Lot 6

Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966). Woman in profile. Drawing in brown ink on a page of the Figaro Littéraire of September 3, 1955. Trace of signature in the lower right corner. H_7.9 cm W_6.7 cm, unstained. Our piece of newspaper is the extract of a report of the famous writer and journalist Henri CALET, telling there his day in Noirmoutier. "Terror at night, harvest of miscellaneous facts in the morning... "published in Le Figaro Littéraire, n°489, 3 September 1955, p. 3. Provenance: Offered by the artist during one of his stays in Saint-Paul-de-Vence at Aimé and Marguerite Maeght's, where the current owner of this work also stayed; kept since. This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by the Fondation Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation; it is referenced by the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in its Database (AGD) under the number AGD 4324. A certificate from the Giacometti Committee will be given to the buyer.