Landscape Near Samedan, 1930
Paysage à Samedan
According to Bruno Giacometti, his brother had an operation on his appendix in Samedan Hospital in July 1930; the drawing is of the Bernina mountain range as seen from the window of his room.
- Material
- Pen in brown ink on thin paper
- Dimensions
- 21.8 x 26.7 cm
- Creditline
- Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1965
- Object number
- GS 097
- Signature
- later inscribed bottom right (in ballpoint): Alberto Giacometti 1930
- Provenance
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- Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), frühestens ab 1965, Leihgabe
- Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (Sammlung), Zürich, frühestens 1965, Übernahme
- Alberto Giacometti-Syndikat, Zürich, 1963, Kauf
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1963, Kauf
- Sammlung G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh
- Alberto Giacometti