Alberto Giacometti - Original Signed Drawing. Ink On Heavy Paper. "to Paul Eluard".

Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901.1966) Original signed drawing. Ink on heavy paper - 23 × 16.70 cm Bouquet of flowers. Signed lower right Alberto Giacometti. Stamped Saturday evening, November 22, 1952. Thinking of Paul Éluard. Alberto Giacometti. Moving testimony of the Swiss artist remembering his surrealist friend Paul Éluard, struck down by a heart attack a few days earlier, on November 18, 1952. Éluard's funeral took place on the same November 22 at the Père Lachaise cemetery. This work is referenced by the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in its online database, Alberto Giacometti Database (AGD), under number 597. Provenance: Saidenberg Gallery, New York. William Doyle, May 23, 2006, lot 1005. Keitelman Gallery, Brussels. Gagosian Gallery, Paris. Exhibitions: Flower Power, Brussels (Belgium). 2010. Keitelman Gallery, from November 19, 2010 to January 29, 2011. The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht (Netherlands), from March 18 to 27, 2011