Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)
Personnages à table à Majola, 1955
Pencil drawing on paper.
Signed and dated lower right.
Pencil on paper.
Signed and dated lower right.
H_29,5 cm W_42 cm
Provenance:
- galerie Tega, Milan
- galerie Di Méo, Paris
- acquired from this gallery by the present owner in 1998
- private collection
Bibliography: The Alberto Giacometti Database, no. 3915.
A certificate from the Giacometti Committee dated March 2018 will be given to the buyer.
This work is referenced in the archives of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation as no. 3915.
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti had an obsessive relationship to drawing throughout his career. After his years of academic training in his father's studio in Stampa, Switzerland, and then with Bourdelle at the Grande Chaumière in Paris, Giacometti's graphic work gradually shifted towards the neo-cubist forms of the late 1920s, and then, during the surrealist period of the 1930s, his drawings, which are very refined, combine abstract signs, poetic language and stylized figurative motifs.
From 1935 onwards, Giacometti returned to figurative art The lecture will also address the major themes of his post-war works and the diversification of his graphic techniques, in particular lithography, which disseminated his mature graphic style, made famous by Paris sans Fin. A selection of unpublished works also allows us to see his more confidential ballpoint pen drawing. Commercialized in France in 1950, the "Bic" allowed Giacometti to satisfy his compulsive need to draw in any medium: the margins of books from the "Série Noire", newspapers, notebooks and the paper tablecloths of the Montparnasse cafés where he had a habit.
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