A PAINTED PLASTER JARDINIERE

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, CIRCA 1936

细节

A PAINTED PLASTER JARDINIERE
Alberto Giacometti, circa 1936
with metal insert
13in. (34cm.) high, 16in. (42.5cm.) diameter

来源

Syrie Maugham
DeWitt Wallace Family
Sotheby's New York, Decorative Works of Art, March 5, 1985, lot 317, part

拍品专文

This planter was supplied by Syrie Maugham for the DeWitt Wallace home, named 'The Castle' by the locals, on a wooded bluff overlooking Bryam Lake in Mt. Kisco, New York, circa 1946-1947. The decoration of rooms for Mrs. DeWitt Wallace was Syrie Maugham's largest post war commission.

cf. Lopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, 1997, p. 248 for an illustration of a sea shell shaped wall lamp in staff, Alberto Giacometti, 1936.