Alberto Giacometti / Autograph Letter Signed / Marbles / Crisis Yanaihara

Autograph letter signed \Trace central fold due to the original shipment. Rare and important letter written giacometti the beginning of his \I thank you for your letters and photographs of marble beyeler to Basel I'll refer you signed [sic]. Both marbles are very different [t] one of the other but they are actually about the same time, and these are the original marble.

That of Madame doesburg was stone gallery; I do not remember at all that i sold that of beyeler. One of beyeler is the same topic as the Marble Museum of Amsterdam but it is very different. It gives me great pleasure that both marbles fall into your collection. And I thank you so much for all you do to my work and that touches me.

It is a great joy for me. I work a lot and i hope to arrive to have something new. Very cordial greetings to Mrs. Actually I think in 1929 or 1927.

30 on after a sculpture done I think in 930 or maybe even 31 on after a sculpture of 1927. This American engineer made a fortune in finance at the time of the Great Depression. Its important collection of modern art included, in addition to works by Giacometti, those. Paul klee, jeans dubuffet, joan miró, henry moore or Kurt Schwitters. The year 1956 was charged with working for alberto Giacometti.

He had, a fortnight earlier, finished to represent France at the Venice Biennale (June 1 - October 1, 1956). As evidenced by this letter, he seeks to \Giacometti is actually plunging into what would later be called the \Isaku Yanaihara is French philosophy professor at Osaka University and met Giacometti in 1956. The latter is fascinated by his face; He then begins a long series of paintings and sculptures at his effigy. It first of all makes a oil painting by October 1956. If follow in many other drawings, paintings and sculptures. He will ask Yanaihara every summer in 1957, 1959, 1960 and 1961. The marbles Madame doesburg \The marble museum amsterdam, cited in the letter, is also called \The item \The seller is \This article can be shipped worldwide.

Type: autograph letter signed <\/ li>
age: 50 years <\/ li>
Theme: Art <\/ li>
Number of pages: 3 <\/ li> <\/ Ul>