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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
'GRECQUE' LAMP, c. 1937
'Grecque', large version.
Model designed around [1937], Plaster.
Early edition from the late 1930s.
Model designed around [1937], Plaster.
Early edition from the late 1930s.
H. without socket: 47 cm. (18 1/2 in.)
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Provenance
- Collection of Jean and Violet Henson (1894-1974) (1887-1971). Probably received as a gift from Jean-Michel Frank (cf. Jean Henson, A time for reflection, éditions Somogy, Paris, 1949, page 194).This work has been included in the artist's catalogue raisonné and referenced in the Alberto Giacometti Database under number AGD 4559 by the Giacometti Foundation. A document from the Giacometti Foundation for the inclusion of this work in the artist's catalogue raisonné and its referencing in the Alberto Giacometti Database will be given to the buyer.
Jean and Violet Henson, an exceptional couple, an exceptional collection :
The 20th-century art adventure was marked by artists who will forever be remembered in history, great art dealers who also left an indelible mark during this period, and finally, bold, unique, and involved collectors who were indispensable links to the evolution and even the existence of this unique moment referred to as the modern era. The turn of the 19th to the 20th century saw writers, poets, composers, painters, and sculptors molded with immense culture, a new sensitivity, proven virtuosity, and avowed humanism. They delivered works tending towards the sublime, those that still shake and captivate us today.
The interwar period was populated by leading artists whose erudition had nothing to envy from their predecessors but for whom history had stood in their way with the Great War and its cohort of horrors, the acceleration of time due to the astounding advances in science and technology, and the works and publications of Freud leading to great discoveries about the mechanisms of the psyche. Consequently, their creations had to reflect this period of great upheaval, both in bodies and minds, and be filled with the disruptions that people struggled to assimilate.
Similarly, the collectors or art enthusiasts of the 1920s and 1930s had profiles very different from those who had been intoxicated with modernity at the beginning of the 20th century. Those had given way to men and women whose lives resembled works of art. Their existences were intertwined with depth and frivolity, action and idleness, courage and cowardice, light and darkness; in parallel with these paradoxical tendencies, knowledge, the appetite for modernity, and also melancholy were palpable in each, the instinctive feeling of a future plunge into the abyss was evident. Jean and Violet Henson, true characters of a novel that they were, both literally and figuratively, were representative of this world of people who revolved around art and artists, forming this community of collectors.
Catalogues
- Art et Décoration - 1st quarter 1939. An identical model, featured in the living room of Mr Raymond Patenôtre's villa in Nice, is reproduced on page 6.- Art et Industrie - No. 1, November 1945. An identical model, with a colour variation, featured in Jean-Michel Frank's décor for a salon in South America, reproduced on page 19.
- Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux: Aux sources du XXe siècle II, Intérieurs - Catalogue of the exhibition held in 1990 at the Galerie Jacques de Vos, Paris, Éditions Galerie Jacques de Vos, Paris, 1990. An identical model, in the salon of Raymond Patenôtre's villa in Nice, is reproduced on page 84.
- Léopold Diego Sanchez - Jean-Michel Frank - Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1997. An identical model is reproduced on pages 166-167.
- Christian Boutonnet and Rafaël Ortiz - Diego Giacometti - Éditions de l'Amateur and Galerie L'Arc en Seine, Paris, 2003. An identical model is reproduced on pages 31 (plaster with pink patina) and 44 (terracotta with ochre patina).
- Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier - Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien - Éditions Norma, Paris, 2006. An identical model is reproduced on page 45 (terracotta), page 149; and pages 191 and 346 (black-tinted plaster).
- Galerie Vallois - Jean-Michel Frank, Biennale 2006 - Éditions Vallois, Paris, 2006. An identical model reproduced in this catalogue, unpaginated.
- Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier - Jean-Michel Frank: un décorateur dans le Paris des années 30 - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint-Laurent, Paris (2 October 2009 - 3 January 2010), Éditions Norma, Paris, 2009. An identical model (terracotta) is reproduced on page 67.
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