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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.661
People
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
  • 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
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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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