Lot 3044 - A201 Swiss Art - Friday, 01. July 2022, 01.30 PM
GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI
(Stampa 1868–1933 Glion)
Fanciulli al bagno (piccolo). Um 1910.
Oil on canvas.
Signed on the reverse: Giovni Giacometti Stampa.
60 × 51 cm.
Provenance:
- With Galerie Moos, Geneva.
- Swiss private collection.
Sources:
Registro des quadri, no 1A, p. 699, no. 159.
Exhibited:
- N.K.V. Munich (according to Registro dei quadri).
- Zurich 1912, Sektion Aargau der Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten. Giovanni Giacometti et al, Kunsthaus Zurich, 24.10.-13.11.1912, no. 130.
- Zurich 1912, Ernest Biéler, Giovanni Giacometti, Fritz Gilsi et al., Kunsthaus Zurich, 17.11.-8.12.1912, no. 354.
- Basel 1913, März-Ausstellung. Max Buri, Giovanni Giacometti, Ferdinand Hodler et al, Kunsthalle Basel, from 9.3.1913, no. 34.
Literature:
Paul Müller and Viola Radlach: Giovanni Giacometti. Werkkatalog der Gemälde, Zurich 1997, vol. II-1, p. 308, no. 1910.12.
In 1910, Giovanni Giacometti repeatedly explored the motif of bathing figures. He painted the present motif in three different versions (cat. rais. nos. 1910.12-14), of which the version offered here is probably the earliest. In the same year, Giacometti's colleague and longtime friend Cuno Amiet also painted several nudes of children and in 1911/12 also adopted the bathtub in his well-known composition "drei Akte” (three nudes) (cat. rais. no. 1912.08). Further evidence of the lively artistic exchange cultivated by the two painters.
CHF 30 000 / 50 000 | (€ 30 930 / 51 550)
Sold for CHF 34 460 (including buyer’s premium)
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