Provenance:
Private collection, Luxembourg, acquired directly from the artist in 1984;
Private collection, Paris;
Aguttes Auction, June 11st 2014, lot. 317;
Private collection, London;
Artcurial Auction, May 26th 2016, lot. 135;
Private collection, Paris
Literature:
Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Hermann editore, Paris, 1986, variant of our model reproduced p. 84-85.
Certificate from James Lord, dated June 15th 2003, drawn up on a certified true copy of Diego Giacometti's purchase invoice, dated 28.10.84.
This is a variant of the 1963 model which featured two deer heads at the intersection of the lateral spacers and the longitudinal one.