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Alberto Giacometti, Grande femme assise, 1958, cast from 1978, Bronze© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Grande femme assise

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966) · 1958, cast from 1978

CHF 5,800,000 hammer

≈ $6,018,660≈ £4,907,583≈ €5,739,710

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Medium
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As published: “Bronze”
Category
Sculpture
Dimensions
80 x 23.2 x 31.5 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 276: Live Auction - Part 1 (276)
Date
June 17, 2022
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
50
Estimate
CHF 6,000,000 – — (≈ $6,226,200) (≈ £5,076,810) (≈ €5,937,631)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (4)
  • Collection Annette Giacometti, Paris
  • Estate of Annette Giacometti
  • Auction Tajan, Paris, 11 July 1994, lot 16 (there titled "Annette assise"), there acquired by
  • International private collection
Exhibitions (3)
  • Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1978, Fondation Maeght, Alberto Giacometti, cat. no. 102, pag. 108 reprod. (other cast, there titled and dated "Annette assise, 1958")
  • Tokyo 1983, The Seibu Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti Exposition, cat. no. 44 (other cast)
  • London 2016, Gagosian Gallery, In Search of the Absolute: Alberto Giacometti and Yves Klein
Literature (7)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti, Paris, dated September 2021, copy available.
  • Catalogue raisonné: The bronze is listed in the electronic catalogue raisonné of the Fondation Annette und Alberto Giacometti under the number AGD 2917
  • Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1962, pag. 285 reprod. (plaster model)
  • Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, London 1972, cf. pag. 256 reprod.
  • Jacques Dupin/Michel Leiris, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1978, pag. 108 reprod. (other cast)
  • Bernhard Lamarche-Vadel, Alberto Giacometti, Paris 1984, cat. no. 223, pag. 154 reprod. (other cast, there titled "Grande femme assise, Annette")
  • Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti, Stuttgart 1987, pag. 256 reprod. (other cast)

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