Henry Kane: Moisson de poupées (1963)

Illustrated bood with 5 drawings.

– Inside front cover: ‘Silvio 022/50.14.79’ (apparently his telephone number in Geneva).

– p. 1: two heads, one younger, one older.

– p. 3: note ‘A Milano visita da un medico / il migliore e se necessario analisi / sangue o oltro, fare tutto il / necessario perché voglio vivere / il più lungo tempo possibile / dunque subito tutto cio. sî.’

– p. 46: squiggle (blue ballpoint pen).

– pp. 100–101: note ‘lithographie, questo dopo … / continuare tutto il lavoro / sculture, pitture disegni sì … // andare intanto subito a lavorare / ma ,,, subito / per ciò.’ With a drawing (blue ballpoint pen).

– p. 102: 2 animals resembling rats.

– p. 103: elaborate squiggles, ornamental.

– p. 159: series of ‘8’, two heads, cursory (blue ballpoint pen)

– p. 183: undulating lines, streaks.

– pp. 193–194: borders of zigzag hatching (blue ballpoint pen).

– p. 202: ‘tension’.

– pp. 203–204: undulating lines.

– p. 206: parallel lines.

– p. 208: border of circles, each with a circle inside it.

The book is held in the library of the Kunsthaus Zürich with the reference code P 231:41

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Material

Ballpoint pen on paper

Dimensions

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Donated by Bruno and Odette Giacometti, 2008

Object number

GS 268

Provenance