Alexander Solschenizyn: Ein Tag im Leben des Iwan Denissowitsch (1963)

Illustrated book with 2 drawings.

– On the flyleaf: bottle and glass (beautiful).

– pp. 52–53: small lines, numbers; note: ‘1. Matisse. Telph. K. Teph. D. 2. Bucarelli. 3. Negri.’

– pp. 58–59: elegant scribble, two jewellery-like hexagons.

– pp. 74–75: borders consisting of series of dots and lines, p. 74: head.

– p. 83: a few small squiggles.

– p. 87: edge pattern of rhombuses and dots.

– Rear flyleaf: large still life with bottles and fruit bowl (probably in a kitchen in the mountains; to the left of the window a clock, scale or the like).

The book is held in the library of the Kunsthaus Zürich with the reference code P 231:43

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Material

Pencil and ballpoint pen on paper

Dimensions

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Donated by Bruno and Odette Giacometti, 2005

Object number

GS 270

Provenance