Figure in an Interior (Personnage dans un intérieur)

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss (worked in France), 1901–1966)

1953

Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil on thick wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 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.)

Credit LineCharles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund

Accession number2000.633

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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

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)