ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966). - Lot 50

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966). Lotus, also known as Horned, the model designed around [1933]. Vase. Plaster. Early edition, mid-1930s. Height: 42.5 cm - Length: 39.5 cm Depth: 16.8 cm Restoration and cleaning; supervised by the Alberto Giacometti Foundation. Important note: This work has been included in the artist's catalog raisonné and referenced in the Alberto Giacometti Database under number AGD 4558 by the Giacometti Foundation. A document from the Giacometti Foundation for the inclusion of this work in the artist's catalog raisonné and its referencing in the Alberto Giacometti Database will be given to the purchaser. Provenance and history : Jean and Violet Henson Collection (1894-1974) (1887-1971). Work most probably received as a gift from Jean-Michel Frank (cf. Jean Henson, A time for réflexion, éditions Somogy, Paris, 1949, page 194). Archives : - A photocopy of an early photograph of the interior of Jean and Violet Henson's estate, featuring our Lotus Vase by Alberto Giacometti, will be given to the purchaser. - Our Lotus Vase by Alberto Giacometti served as a model for the artist Hannah Gluckstein (1895-1978), known as Gluck, for a painting executed at the Hensons' home in 1937 entitled Still Life, which was presented* the same year at The Fine Art Society's London exhibition under catalog number 17. - Our Lotus Vase by Alberto Giacometti is based on a watercolor by Chapman Anderson Sidney Roy (1916-1999), painted at the Henson home in 1969 and depicting the petit salon in 1939 - 1945. This work is part of a suite of 38 watercolors by the artist depicting interior and exterior (garden) views of the Henson villa. - Constance Spry - Flowers in house and garden - Published by J. M. Dent and Sons LTD, London, 1937. Our Lotus Vase by Alberto Giacometti, in a niche inside the Henson villa and receiving a floral composition by the author, featured on an off-text illustration after an original drawing by Rex Whistler. The author received considerable support from Jean and Violet Henson for the publication of this work, which was dedicated to them in the form of a full-page acknowledgement [À mes amis altruistes, généreux et encourageants; Jean et Violet Henson] (To my unselfish, generous and encouraging friends; Jean and Violet Hensen). - Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris - An identical model is reproduced on a period photograph conserved under number 5003 of the Fonds Félix Marcilhac deposited in this institution as MAR 1-2. Public collection : Center Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris - An identical model is conserved in the collections of this institution under inventory number AM 1987-1162. Bibliographer of our work : - Femina - December 1947 - January 1948. Our work photographed in situ and reproduced on page 171 in an article entirely devoted to the property of Jean and Violet Henson by Pierre Guérin. - Collective - Gluck: Art and Identity - Éditions Amy de la Haye et Martin Pel / Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and London College of Fashion, 2017. The painting in Jean and Violet Henson's home by Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein), featuring our work receiving a bouquet, reproduced on page 101. Bibliography and related works: - Vogue Paris - April 1935. An identical model featured in a Schiaparelli fashion photograph reproduced on page 73. - Daniel Marchesseau - Diego Giacometti - Éditions Hermann, Paris, 1986. Identical model reproduced on page 11. - Léopold Diego Sanchez - Jean-Michel Frank - Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1997. An identical model in a period photograph reproduced on page 25, showing Jean-Michel Frank and Adolphe Chanaux surrounded by their friends and collaborators in their store on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and another identical model reproduced on page 243. - Alberto Giacometti, la collection du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Étienne (March 12 - June 13, 1999), Éditions du Centre Pompidou and Réunion des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1999. An identical model, kept at the Centre Pompidou, is reproduced on page 118. - 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 page 47. - Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier - Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien - Éditions Norma, Paris, 2006. Identical model reproduced on pages 45, 198-199 and 250. - Surreal Things, Surrealism and Design - Catalogue of the touring exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (March 29 - July 22, 2007); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (September 29, 2007 - January 6, 2008); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (3 m