Alberto Giacometti - Original Signed Drawing - Bouquet Of Flowers For 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.

Printed Saturday evening, November 22, 1952.

Thinking of Paul Éluard.

Alberto Giacometti.

A moving tribute by the Swiss artist in memory of his Surrealist friend Paul Éluard, who had died suddenly of a heart attack just a few days earlier, on November 18, 1952. Éluard’s funeral took place that same day, November 22, at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

This work is listed by the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in its online database, the 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, November 19, 2010–January 29, 2011.
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht (Netherlands), March 18–27, 2011