Lotto 3299 - A213 Impressionismo e arte moderna - venerdì, 27. giugno 2025, 16h30
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
(Stampa 1901–1966 Chur)
Lampe modèle "flambeau", petit modèle. Circa 1934.
Bronze, brown-green patina.
H 44.5 cm.
Certificate:
Provenance:
- Maria Emilia Giacometti-Paschini (sister in law of the above), by descent.
- Private collection, Switzerland, by descent from the above.
Literature:
Alberto Giacometti began creating early on decorative objects such as vases, furniture, and lamps for select decorators, architects, and friends. This work was most fruitful in the 1930s when he collaborated with the Jewish designer and interior decorator Jean-Michel Frank, a cousin of Anne Frank, who fled to Argentina to escape the Germans in 1940 and took his own life in the United States a year later. Giacometti created over 50 objects commissioned by Frank, including the model of the lamp, circa 1934, for sale here.
Although these decorative commissions were originally accepted for financial reasons, Giacometti succeeded in uniting his artistic visions with the utilitarian aspects of these objects, so that one can speak of them as sculptural Gesamtkunstwerke (total works of art).
The work “flambeau, petit modèle” represents this type of living sculpture. At once simple, archaic, and elegant, the geometric bronze elements rise to form a column that simultaneously assumes the shape of a torch. Accordingly, the title “flambeau” (torch) refers both to this form and to the lamp’s function as a source of light.
Although these decorative commissions were originally accepted for financial reasons, Giacometti succeeded in uniting his artistic visions with the utilitarian aspects of these objects, so that one can speak of them as sculptural Gesamtkunstwerke (total works of art).
The work “flambeau, petit modèle” represents this type of living sculpture. At once simple, archaic, and elegant, the geometric bronze elements rise to form a column that simultaneously assumes the shape of a torch. Accordingly, the title “flambeau” (torch) refers both to this form and to the lamp’s function as a source of light.
CHF 150 000 / 250 000 | (€ 154 640 / 257 730)
Venduto per CHF 212 500 (incl. premio)