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GIACOMETTI, Alberto

Borgonovo, Switzerland 1901 - Coire, Switzerland 1966

Maker: Susse

La Cage (1ère version)

The Cage (1st version)

1949-1950

bronze

group

Dimensions (HxWxD): 35 78 x 14 38 x 13 38 in.

signed and numbered: Susse Fondeur, Paris / 8/8

Acc. No.: M.2005.70.28

Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof

Photo credit: www.lacma.org

© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)

Provenance

  • Paris, Annette Giacometti
  • Basel, Galerie Beyeler
  • 2002, Janice and Henri Lazarof
  • 2005, Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof

Bibliography

  • Museum's website, August 30, 2013
  • 1990 Galerie Beyeler
    “Alberto Giacometti,” Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June-Sept 1990.
  • 1990 Musée Kiyoharu Shirakaba
    “Alberto Giacometti,” Musée Kiyoharu Shirakaba, Japan, Sept- Nov 1990.
  • 1991 Beaux Arts Magazine
    Beaux Arts Magazine, 1991
  • 1992 Sara Hildénin Taidemuseo
    “Alberto Giacometti,” Sara Hildénin taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland, April-June 1992.
  • 1992 Galerie Beyeler
    “Homage to Francis Bacon,” Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June- Sept 1992.
  • 1993 Guggenheim Museum
    “Picasso and the Age of Iron,” New York: Guggenheim Museum, March-May 1993.
  • 1999 Kunsthalle Mannheim
    “Menschenbilder: Figur in Zeiten der Abstraktion,” Kunsthalle Mannheim, Oct 1998 – Jan 1999.
  • 2000 Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
    “Die Familie Giacometti, das Tal, die Welt,” Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, June- Sept 2000 (reproduced in color, p. 207)
  • 2000 Fonzazione Antonio Mazzotta
    “I Giacometti – La Valle, Il Mondo,” Fonzazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milano, Feb – May 2000.
  • 2002 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
    “Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris,” Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Oct – Dec 2001, and Foundation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Feb – May 2002.
  • 2012 LACMA
    Envisioning modernism: the Janice and Henri Lazarof collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.