Couple

Modern Art

1926

Alberto Giacometti
Swiss, 1901–1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title: Couple
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1926
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 4 of 6
Inscriptions: Signed on rear of base: A. Giacometti 4/6
Dimensions: 59.7 × 37 × 16.8 cm (23 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston
Reference Number: 1964.198
Copyright: © 2018 Succession Giacometti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Collecting Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, exh. cat. (Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1957), 51, cat. 43 (ill.).
Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965), 31 (ill.), 115, cat. 2
Alan G. Wilkinson, Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, exh. cat. (Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981), 222, cat. 998, 223 (ill.).
Valerie Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 72, cat. 3.
“The Expressive Achievements of Alberto Giacometti,” Museum & Arts Washington, Sept/Oct. 1988, 46.
Jason Edward Kaufman, “Giacometti Retrospective In Washington,” The New York Tribune, Oct. 4, 1988, 11.
Donna M. De Salvo and Mary Ann Caws, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, exh. cat. (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 1997), 48 (ill.), no. cat. no.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Collecting Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, Sept. 27–Nov. 3, 1957, cat. 43; Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Art, Dec. 13, 1957–Jan. 5, 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, Jan. 23–Mar. 13, 1958; The Milwaukee Art Institute, Apr. 11–May 12, 1958.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, June 9–Oct. 10, 1965, cat. 2; The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 1965–Dec. 12, 1965; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jan. 11–Feb. 20, 1966, San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 10–Apr. 24, 1966.
Ontario, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Nov. 6, 1981–Jan. 3, 1982, cat. 98.
Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, Sept. 9, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998, no cat. no.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, Detroit, by 1957 [Detroit 1957]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

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