Flower in Danger, 1932
Fleur en danger
Giacometti had his Surrealist plasters executed in wood by the Basque art carpenter Ipústegi. The gallows with the flower was initially attached at right angles to the longitudinal plane.
- Material
- Wood, plaster, wire and string
- Dimensions
- 56 x 78 x 18 cm
- Creditline
- Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1965
- Object number
- GS 024
- Signature
- inscr. on base, front right with white brush: Alberto Giacometti
- Provenance
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- ab 1965, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Leihgabe
- ab 1965, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (Sammlung), Zürich, Übereignung
- 1963, Alberto Giacometti-Syndikat, Zürich, Kauf
- 1963, Galerie Beyeler (Galerie), Basel, Kauf
- G. David Thompson (*1899 Newark, OH, +1965 Pittsburgh, PA) (Sammler/-in), Pittsburgh
- Verbleib unbekannt
- 1948, Pierre Matisse Gallery (Galerie), New York
- Alberto Giacometti (*1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa, +1966 Chur) (Künstler/-in)