ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

Exhibited by Galerie Marcilhac

Material Plaster sculpture with gilding traces.

Dimensions 24 x 15.5 x 16.5 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

A "Mask" or "Hairdressing mask" plaster sculpture designed by Alberto Giacometti in 1933 for Jean Michel Frank. Gilding traces.

Provenance

A certificate of authenticity from the Giacometti Committee would be given to the buyer. This artwork has been registered by the Fondation Giacometti in the online Alberto Giacometti Database (AGD)

Literature

Listed in the Giacometti Foundation's catalogue raisonné under reference AGD no. 4636.
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006: model illustrated on page 349 (and discernible on the wall in the photograph on page 203, as well as in Jean-Michel Frank's boutique in the photograph on page 231).
François Baudot, J.M. Frank, New York, 2004: model illustrated on pages 20-21.
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Paris, 1997: model illustrated on page 239.
Architectural Digest, May-June 1977: model shown on a pedestal in the photograph of a Parisian interior on page 108.