
Art Institute of Chicago
Isaku Yanaihara
Alberto Giacometti · 1956
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, April 1958 [this and the following, letter from Maria-Gaetana Matisse, March 28, 1989; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Silvain and Arma Wyler, 1959; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alberto Giacometti, June 9–Oct. 10, 1965, not in cat.; 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 (Chicago only).
- Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 43; Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 53, no. 4 and 54, no. 1 (Double issue: February 1960), 15 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 42.
- Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti (Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1962), 149 (ill).
- John Maxon and Anselmo Carini, The Art Institute of Chicago: presentación de Charles C. Cunningham (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, S.A., 1967), 81 (color ill.), as Retrato de Isaku Yanaihara.
- Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti: a biography of his work (Paris: Flammarion, 1991), 451 (ill.), as Yanaihara III.
- Judith A. Barter, Douglas W. Druick, Charles F. Stuckey, and James N. Wood, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994), 134, cat. 43, 135 (color ill.).
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