designed c. 1936, patinated bronze, signed in one foot: A. Giacometti and numbered: 021, height 149 cm. (DRAX)

Registered in the catalogue raisonné of the works of Alberto Giacometti under AGD-no. 3715. With certificate of authenticity issued by the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti.

The design of this lamp goes back to the collaboration between Alberto Giacometti and the Parisian designer and interior decorator Jean-Michel Frank, for whom the artist conceived several lamp models in 1936 used for Frank’s interiors.

Lit.:
Mobilier et Décoration, 1, January/February 1949, Paris, p. 33 – L. D. Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris 1980, p. 164, p. 204 (a different cast) – Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat., Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 1983, no. 114 (a different cast) – M. Butor, Diego Giacometti, Paris 1985, p, 142 (a different cast) – D. Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris 1986, p. 11 (a different cast) – F. Francisci, Diego Giacometti. Catalogue de l’oeuvre, Paris 1986, vol. I, fig. 32 (a different cast) – F. Baudot, Diego Giacometti, New York 2001, p. 43, p. 77 (different casts) – Ch. Boutonnet, R. Ortiz, Diego Giacometti, Paris 2003, p. 38 (a different cast) – P. E. Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank. L’étrange luxe du rien, Paris 2006, p. 347 (a different cast)

Provenance:
Collection Walter Hadorn, Bern, Switzerland; passed on by inheritance within the family

After the death of Walter Hadorn in 1986, large parts of the collection of the Swiss medical doctor and art patron went to the Kunstmuseum Bern as a donation, including Amadeo Modigliani’s Standing Female Nude (“Elvira”) from 1918. As early as 1977, the Kunstmuseum Bern had presented the Hadorn Collection in an exhibition that was accompanied by a catalogue (Kunstmuseum Bern, Sammlung Hadorn, Bern 1977).