Alberto GiacomettiNu tendu dans un lit (Annette dans la chambre, rue Hippolyte-Maindron)
1953
Pencil on paper
Signed and dated Alberto Giacometti, 1953
12.8 x 19.76 in ( 32.5 x 50.2 cm )ZoomInquiry - Nu tendu dans un lit (Annette dans la chambre, rue Hippolyte-Maindron), 1953
Provenance
Collection Privée
Collection Privée
Vente Sotheby's New York
Vente Sotheby's New York
Galerie Sho Contemporary Art
Vente Sotheby's New York
Collection Privée
Literature
Impressionist and Modern Drawings and Watercolors, New York, NY : Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.
Impressionist & Modern Art. Day Sale. Afternoon, New York, NY : Sotheby's Inc., 2007, lot n°398
Impressionist & Modern Art. Day Sale, New York, NY : Sotheby's Inc., 2009, lot n°127, p. 8
Exhibited
2012 : TEFAF, du 16 au 25 mars 2012
Artwork's description
Annette's appearance in Alberto Giacometti's paintings and sculpture of the mid- 1950s marked a decisive shift in his art. In comparison to the spindly, anonymous female figures of the previous decade, the women of the 1950s are marked by a more expressive style. Although several strong females provided inspiration for Giacometti's work, it was Annette who had the most profound and long-lasting effect on his oeuvre.
Giacometti was instantly taken with the young Annette Arm when he met her after moving to Switzerland in 1942. As their friend Jean Starobinski remembered, “When Annette appeared at his side, in Geneva, it was as though she had been expected. She was a young woman who stood ‘facing you,' who watched, and spoke, and met life ‘head on,' infinitely candid and infinitely reserved, in a wonderful frontality”