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Alberto Giacometti, L'Atelier, 1951, Oil on canvas© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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L'Atelier

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966) · 1951

CHF 4,800,000 hammer

≈ $5,666,400≈ £4,319,890≈ €5,113,618

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Medium
Oil · Paintings all oil results →
As published: “Oil on canvas”
Support
Canvas
Signed / inscribed
Signed and dated · Alberto Giacometti signature
Category
Oil paintings
Dimensions
73 x 60 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 280: Highlights from the - Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection - Live Auction (280)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
38
Estimate
CHF 6,000,000 – — (≈ $7,083,000) (≈ £5,399,863) (≈ €6,392,022)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (5)
  • Raymond Dreyfus Collection
  • Hamilton Galleries, London
  • Sir Edward and Lady Hulton Collection, London
  • The Lefevre Gallery (Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London, purchased there in 1984 by
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse of the stretcher, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (18)
  • Paris 1951, Alberto Giacometti, Galerie Maeght, cat. no. 15 or 16
  • Wuppertal 1964, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Sir Edward and Lady Hulton Collection, London
  • London 1965, The Tate Gallery, Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, cat. no. 112, ill.
  • Humlebaek 1965, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, cat. no. 104
  • Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1978, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Alberto Giacometti, cat. no. 138
  • London 1983, Marlborough Fine Art, Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, cat. no. 17
  • London 1984, The Lefevre Gallery, Important XIX & XX Century Works of Art, cat. no. 9, ill.
  • Washington/San Francisco 1988/1989, Hirshhorn Museum / Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, cat. no. 61, ill.
  • Paris 1991/1992, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Alberto Giacometti, cat. no. 114, ill.
  • Vienna 1996, Kunsthalle, Alberto Giacometti, cat. no. 146, ill.
  • Edinburgh/London 1996/1997, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art/Royal Academy of Arts, Alberto Giacometti, cat. no. 142, ill.
  • Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 119, ill.
  • Bern 2003, Kunstmuseum, Hommage an "E.W.K.", Meisterwerke von Giovanni, Alberto und Diego Giacometti aus der Sammlung von Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 36, ill.
  • Vienna 2008/2009, Albertina, Wege der Moderne, Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 152, p. 285, ill. p. 239
  • Riehen 2009, Fondation Beyeler, Giacometti, cat. no. 100, p. 218, ill. p. 145
  • Chur 2011, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Alberto Giacometti: Neu gesehen
  • Stuttgart 2012/2013, Staatsgalerie, Mythos Atelier, Von Spitzweg bis Picasso, von Giacometti bis Nauman, cat. no. 88, p. 266, ill. p. 185
  • Zurich 2016/2017, Kunsthaus, Alberto Giacometti, Material und Vision, ill. p. 149, ill. p. 116
Literature (6)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti, Paris, dated October 2017, is available
  • Catalogue raisonné: The painting is listed in the electronic catalogue raisonné of the Fondation Annette et Alberto Giacometti under the number AGD 1333
  • Derrière le Miroir, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1951 - 1961, no. 15 or 16
  • Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1962, ill. p. 108
  • Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1991/Bern 1992, ill. 339, p. 366
  • Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Biographie d'une œuvre, Paris 2012, no. 339, ill. p. 366

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