
Art Institute of Chicago
Couple
Alberto Giacometti · 1926
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, Detroit, by 1957 [Detroit 1957]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Collecting Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, Sept. 27–Nov. 3, 1957, cat. 43; Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Art, Dec. 13, 1957–Jan. 5, 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, Jan. 23–Mar. 13, 1958; The Milwaukee Art Institute, Apr. 11–May 12, 1958.
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, June 9–Oct. 10, 1965, cat. 2; The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 1965–Dec. 12, 1965; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jan. 11–Feb. 20, 1966, San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 10–Apr. 24, 1966.
- Ontario, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Nov. 6, 1981–Jan. 3, 1982, cat. 98.
- Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, Sept. 9, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- The Detroit Institute of Arts, Collecting Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, exh. cat. (Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1957), 51, cat. 43 (ill.).
- Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965), 31 (ill.), 115, cat. 2
- Alan G. Wilkinson, Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, exh. cat. (Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981), 222, cat. 998, 223 (ill.).
- Valerie Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 72, cat. 3.
- “The Expressive Achievements of Alberto Giacometti,” Museum & Arts Washington, Sept/Oct. 1988, 46.
- Jason Edward Kaufman, “Giacometti Retrospective In Washington,” The New York Tribune, Oct. 4, 1988, 11.
- Donna M. De Salvo and Mary Ann Caws, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, exh. cat. (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 1997), 48 (ill.), no. cat. no.
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