Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
A DIALOGUE THROUGH ART: WORKS FROM THE JAN KRUGIER COLLECTION
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Portrait de Pierre Reverdy de profil droit

Details
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Portrait de Pierre Reverdy de profil droit
pen and black ink on paper
11 5/8 x 8¼ in. (29.7 x 21 cm.)
drawn circa 1962
Provenance
Alice Tériade, Paris.
Jan Krugier, acquired from the above, 1989.
Literature
A. Dückers, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und
Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski
,
Berlin, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 403 (illustrated).
P. Rylands, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 403 (illustrated).
The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 2774.
The Alberto and Annette Giacometti Association Database, no. D-2013-10.
Exhibited
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, peintures, dessins, November 1991-March 1992, p. 270, no. 173 (illustrated in color).
Kunsthalle Wien and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, February-September 1996, p. 282, no. 183 (illustrated, p. 283).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Alberto Giacometti, April-June 1997, p. 200, no. 137 (illustrated in color, p. 201).
Sale Room Notice
Please note that this work is registered in the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Association Database under the no. D-2013-10.

Lot Essay

Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) was a French poet who lived and worked in Paris at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. He interacted and collaborated with many of his avant-garde contemporaries, including Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and in doing so, he redefined poetry. Although he was influenced by Cubism and Dadaism, his work was most admired by the Surrealists. In the first Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton referred to Reverdy as "the greatest poet of the time." It is not surprising that Brassaï, a photographer who worked closely with the Surrealists, would photograph Reverdy. Giacometti's drawing, which is based on the photograph (fig. 1), therefore speaks of the complex relationships between the different artists and ideas that characterized the time in which Reverdy, Brassaï and Giacometti were working.

(fig. 1) Brassaï, Pierre Reverdy, 1932, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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