Giovanni Giacometti Reading
Cuno Amiet
(Swiss, 1869–1961)
Giovanni Giacometti
(Swiss, 1868–1933)
1907, signed 1910
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut, printed in orange
DimensionsSheet: 36.2 x 33.5 cm (14 1/4 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit LineFund in Memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number2011.13
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ProvenanceProbably given by the artist to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (b.1880 – d. 1938), Davos, Switzerland; to his widow, Erna Kirchner (d. 1945), Davos; sold by Erna Kirchner to Walter Kern (b. 1898 – d. 1966; Lugt 1567a), Davos. June 5, 2008, anonymous sale (auction 244), Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, lot 163, to August Laube Buch und Kunstantiquariat, Zürich; 2011, sold by Laube to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)
John D. Batten