The design belongs with the Surrealist display models and game boards. No finished version is known to have been executed, but the elements match the top of the ‘Objet désagréable à jeter’ (see GS 260, GS 416).

Material

Pen in brown ink on paper

Dimensions

22.2 x 18.1 cm

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1978

Object number

GS 131

Signature

Inscribed bottom right (in pencil): Alberto Giacometti

Further information

Provenance

• Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich, ab 1978, Leihgabe
• Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (Sammlung), Zürich, 1978, Kauf
• Galerie Modern Art (Kunsthandel), bis 1978
• Verbleib unbekannt
• Alberto Giacometti