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Figure in an Interior (Personnage dans un intérieur)
Alberto Giacometti (Swiss (worked in France), 1901–1966)
1953
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil on thick wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 51.9 x 34.1 cm (20 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
Framed: 70.5 x 52.7 cm (27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
Framed: 70.5 x 52.7 cm (27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund
Accession Number2000.633
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsRecto LR in graphite pencil: Alberto Giacometti 1953
Verso UR: blindstamp of Martello [possibly Mactello; shows a t-square as part of the stamp design; stamp inverted]
Later inscriptions or marks: Verso C in graphite pencil: -- 29 [sideways]
Verso LR in graphite pencil: 2837 / Maeght
Verso LR in graphite pencil: 2559 / 94
Verso UR: blindstamp of Martello [possibly Mactello; shows a t-square as part of the stamp design; stamp inverted]
Later inscriptions or marks: Verso C in graphite pencil: -- 29 [sideways]
Verso LR in graphite pencil: 2837 / Maeght
Verso LR in graphite pencil: 2559 / 94
ProvenanceGallerie Maeght, Paris; 1955, sold by Gallerie Maeght to Florence and Richard Weil, St. Louis; Sotheby's (sale 6985, 14 May 1997, lot 353); purchased for a private collector, San Francisco by the John Berggruen Gallery; 2000, sold by the Berggruen Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 26, 2000)
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