Head/Skull

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Object Details

Artist
Alberto Giacometti, Swiss, b. Borgonovo, 1901–1966
Date
(1934)
Medium
Plaster
Dimensions
7 1/4 × 8 × 8 3/4 in. (18.2 × 20.2 × 22.3 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.2045

Man Ray, Paris (gift from the Artist), c. 1934-probably July 1935--early 1950s
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh, early 1950s-1963
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 3 October 1963-17 May 1966 (via Harold Diamond, New York)
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
[JULIAN LEVY GALLERY, New York. "Abstract Sculpture by Albert Giacometti," December 1934, no. 8 or 9, both listed as Head plaster].
[GALERIE PIERRE (LOEB), Paris. Surrealist Group exhibition, 1936].
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Alberto Giacometti," 7 June-17 July 1955, n.p., no ill. (as Head, 1932-1934, plaster, h. 7 inches, Collection G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh).
GALERIE BEYELER, Basel. "Alberto Giacometti," July-September 1963, no. 22 (as Tête Cubiste).
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 404, p. 291, p. 695.

GALERIE BEYELER, Basel. Alberto Giacometti (1964), no. 22 (as "Tête Cubiste," 1934/35; erroneously listed as belonging to Kunsthaus, Zurich), ill. 15 (with painted and shellacked coating from casting process).
MICHELSON, ANNETTE. "Private but Public: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Contemporary Sculpture," Arts Yearbook 8 (New York: Art Digest, 1965), ill. p. 186.
MEYER, FRANZ. Alberto Giacometti (Frauenfeld and Stuttgart: Verlag Huber, 1968), seen in group photo, fig. 4b (deep-cut eye; seems shellacked plaster).
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), fig. 404, pp. 291, 695.
WITHERS, JOSEPHINE. Julio Gonzalez: Sculpture in Iron (New York: New York University Press, 1978), ill. 134, p. 105.
EVANS, TAMARA S, ed. Alberto Giacometti and America (New York: The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 1984), pp. 99, 104, 107-108.
CURTIS, PENELOPE and ALAN G. WILKINSON. Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective (London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994) (exhibition catalogue), ill. p. 56.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU. Alberto Giacometti: La Collection du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1999), no. 30, pp. 108-111, ill.

Signature
Incised On R Side Of Head, Along Bottom, LC: A. Giacometti
Inscriptions
Incised On R Side Of Head, Along Bottom LR: 1/1

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
Cubist Head
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