Tête de femme (Flora Mayo)

细节

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Tête de femme (Flora Mayo)
signed, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alberto Giacometti 6/8 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with green patina
Height: 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1927; this bronze version cast at a later date

来源

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 29 March 1993, lot 325.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

拍场告示

Please note the following additional literature reference for this work:
The Alberto and Annette Giacometti Association database no. S2010-13.

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The present work portrays Flora Lewis Mayo, a young American heiress from Colorado who came to Paris in 1925. Like Giacometti, she studied sculpture with Bourdelle at the elder master's atelier on the rue Grande-Chaumière and in 1927 Giacometti and Mayo made portraits of each other in plaster. Giacometti's plaster displays his interest at that time in primitive art, and marks an important step in the artist's evolution from the realistic representation of the figure towards a greater sense of formal freedom.