1986.661: Le Buffet
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1986.661
- People
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Alberto Giacometti, Swiss (Borgonovo, Switzerland 1901 - 1966 Chur, Switzerland)
- Title
- Le Buffet
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1957
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/227588
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50 x 61 cm (19 11/16 x 24 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r. in black paint: Alberto Giacometti 1957
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Pierre Matisse, New York with Leo Castelli] (1957-1959), sold; to Joseph L. Tucker, St. Louis (1959-1972), sold; to Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Saint Louis (1972-1986), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1986.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
- Copyright
- © Alberto Giacometti Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1986
- Object Number
- 1986.661
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Maeght (Paris, 1962), p. 161, ill.
- The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Doubleday & Co. (Garden City, NY, 1965), fig. 94, ill.
- Angelica Zander Rudenstine, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1988), p. 685, 687, fig. 262, ill. (b/w)
- Yves Bonnefoy, Giacometti: A Biography of his Work, Flammarion (Paris, 1991), p. 447, fig. 430, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Giacometti, Venice Bienniale XXXI, 1962, 06/16/1962 - 10/07/1962
- Alberto Giacometti, Kunsthaus Zürich, 12/02/1962 - 01/20/1963
- Alberto Giacometti, The Phillips Collection, 02/07/1963 - 03/18/1963
- Alberto Giacometti, The Museum of Modern Art, 06/09/1965 - 10/10/1965; The Art Institute of Chicago, 11/05/1965 - 12/12/1965; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 01/11/1966 - 02/20/1966; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 03/10/1966 - 04/24/1966
- Alberto Giacometti, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, 10/09/1987 - 01/03/1988; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 01/29/1988 - 03/20/1988
- Alberto Giacometti, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 11/14/1990 - 01/14/1991
Verification Level
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