Head

Contemporary Art

1934

Alberto Giacometti
Swiss, 1901–1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title: Head
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.: 1934
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 1 of 6
Inscriptions: Signed right hand lower edge: Alberto Giacometti
Dimensions: 25.4 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm (10 × 8 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Reference Number: 1961.1113
Copyright: © 2018 Succession Giacometti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti, (Zürich: IM Verlag der Arche, 1958), 81, 103 (ill.), as Tête cubiste.
Sidney Janis Gallery, Painting and Sculpture from the Gallery Collection, exh. cat. (New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 1961), n.p., cat. 18 (ill.)
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 56, no. 2, (June 1962), 32 (ill.).
A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo, vol. LXXXIV, Sept. 1966, 225.
The University of California, Santa Barbara, Sculpture–20s and 30s, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara: The University of California, 1972), n.p., cat. 2 (ill.).
Alicia Legg, 4 mestres contemporaneos : Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giocometti, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, exh. cat. (Sao Paulo: Museu de Arte, 1973), CAT INFO PENDING.
Rienhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Guggenheim, 1974), 75, cat. 36 (ill.)
Valerie Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 106.
Stephanie D’Alessandro and Renée DeVoe Mertz, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 121 (color ill.), no cat. no.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Painting and Sculpture from the Gallery Collection, Oct. 30–Dec. 2, 1961, cat. 18.
Santa Barbara, The Art Galleries, University of California, Sculpture–20s and 30’, Feb. 22–Mar. 26, 1972, cat. 25.
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 4 mestres contemporaneos: Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giocometti, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Sept. 3–Oct. 7, 1973, CAT INFO PENDING; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Oct. 15–Nov. 4, 1973.
New York, Guggenheim, Alberto Giacometti Retrospective, Apr. 5–June 23, 1974, cat. 36.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, “The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 6, 2013–February 16, 2014, no cat. no.

Pierre Matisse, New York, by 1958 [this and the following, letter from Galerie Beyeler to A. James Speyer, Mar. 17, 1962; reference to E. Scheidegger book 1958]. Walter Bareiss. Harold Diamond, New York [this and the following, letter from Galerie Beyeler to A. James Speyer, Mar. 29, 1962]; sold to Ernst Beyeler, Basel; sold to Sidney Janis, New York [letter A. James Speyer to Ernst Beyeler, Feb. 16, 1962]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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