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Paul Dupré-Lafon and Alberto Giacometti Unique side table with sphinx circa 1950 Painted iron, bronze, stone. 22 x 29 3/8 x 13 2/8 in. (55.9 x 74.6 x 33.7 cm) The sphinx (designed circa 1935) together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Giacometti.
Provenance Collection of the designer Thence by descent to Antoine Dupré-Lafon Literature Bijoux d’artistes, exh. cat., Musée du Temps – Besançon, 2009, p. 91 for the sphinx Galerie du Crédit Municipal de Paris, Bijoux d’artistes: une collection, 2012, p. 95 for the sphinx Catalogue Essay The present table was designed by Paul Dupré-Lafon as a stand to support a seventeenth-century chest in his own collection. The x-form stretcher is surmounted by a bronze sculpture of a sphinx by Alberto Giacometti a small but critical flourish which animates the table's neoclassical rigor. The sphinx has been authenticated by the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti and is registered in the Alberto Giacometti Database, the online catalogue of authentic works by the artist, as number AGD 3412. Read More