Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Star" lamp base... Lot 42

Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Star" lamp base (the model created circa 1935) Proof in shaded patinated bronze. Signed A. Giacometti on the foot and numbered 061. Height 41,7 cm - length 16,5 cm - depth 17,5 cm Provenance : former collection of M. Alain Perio, France. History : We thank the Giacometti Foundation for confirming the authenticity of this piece which is referenced in the archives of the Giacometti Foundation. in the archives of the Giacometti Foundation under n°4484. A document from the Giacometti Foundation regarding of the Giacometti Foundation regarding the inclusion of this work in the catalog raisonné and its referencing dated September 2022 will be given to the buyer. to the buyer. Bibliography: Collective, Diego Giacometti: Catalogue de l'œuvre, Paris, Edition Eolia, 1986, vol. I, model referenced and reproduced on p. 32. Leopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, identical model referenced and reproduced p. 244. Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1980, identical model reproduced p. 200. Christian Boutonnet and Rafael Ortiz, Diego Giacometti, Éditions de l'Amateur/Galerie L'Arc-en-Seine, Paris, 2003, identical models reproduced on p. 42. Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank: L'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, identical model referenced and reproduced on p. 347. Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 4484 If everyone is familiar with the long, stretched bronze silhouettes that are emblematic of Alberto Giacometti's work we should not forget that he also marked the avant-garde of his time with his talents as a decorator. The dawn of the 1930s was marked by a fruitful collaboration with Jean-Michel Frank. With the help of his brother Diego, Alberto puts at the service of this last one his talents in the work of the bronze which it submits to the aesthetic archaizing and minimalist aesthetic required by Frank. Emblematic of the Art Deco period, the pieces designed by Giacometti, such as his lamp base "star" borrow from the geometry of cubism while retaining an eminently personal character, exceeding the aesthetics of the personal character, exceeding the aesthetics of the avant-garde of the time.