Tall Figure by Alberto Giacometti
Art Institute of Chicago

Tall Figure

Alberto Giacometti · 1947

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold through Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to J. Patrick Lannan, Dec. 17, 1957 [letter from J. Patrick Lannan to Katharine Kuh, Dec. 12, 1957; copy in curatorial file]; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Acquavella Galleries, Alberto Giacometti: a loan exhibition, Oct. 27–Dec. 10, 1994, cat. 15.

Literature

Published references

  • Valerie Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 132.
  • James Lord and Michael Brenson, Alberto Giacometti: a loan exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1994), 45, cat. 15 (ill.), 110
  • James N. Wood and T. J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 95 (ill.)
  • Jeremy Strick, “Fixed and Visible: Lannan Foundation and The Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 25, no. 1 (1999), 7, 9, fig. 2.

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