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Sculptural Masterpiece by Alberto Giacometti To Lead Sothebys Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on 6 November

GRANDE TTE DE DIEGO ESTIMATED TO SELL FOR $35/50 MILLION

NEW YORK, 3 October 2013 Sothebys Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 6 November 2013 will be led an exceptional cast of Alberto Giacomettis Grande tte de Diego the most ambitious in a series of innovative sculptures by the artist that personified the Existentialist movement during the Cold War. The artist's younger brother Diego served as the model for this expressive work, whose facial similarity to his brother invested Giacomettis work of the 1950s with an autobiographical narrative.

Conceived in 1954 and cast in bronze the following year, Grande tte de Diego is estimated to sell for $35/50 million*. The work will be on view in Hong Kong, London and Moscow before returning to New York for exhibition beginning 1 November**.

Simon Shaw, Head of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art department in New York, commented: Of all his

representations of the human figure, Grande tte de Diego is perhaps Giacometti's most radical, visually engaging

and emotionally impactful. The exaggerated profile and knifeedge frontal view allow one to experience two radically different views of his brother. Along with Giacomettis iconic Lhomme qui marche, Grande tte de Diego represents the definitive expression of his aesthetic.

The current auction record for Alberto Giacometti was set at Sothebys London in February 2010, when L'homme qui marche I achieved $103.9 million. That price remains the world auction record for any piece of sculpture. The most recent cast of Grande tte de Diego to appear at auction sold for $53.3 million at Christies New York in May 2010.

By the 1950s, Giacometti shifted his attention from the elongated figures of his post-war years and turned to figural sculptures that were more naturalistic in scale. Many were heads and half-length busts, completed between 1951 and 1957 and often executed from memory. For the most part, these sculptures were solid, designed without a base, and executed with the matire ptrie, or kneaded method, which heightened the expressiveness of the figure. In the present work, the viewer clearly can see how the artist relied on intense modeling to create the jacket and the sharp bridge of the nose.

Like the hauntingly-beautiful paintings of his brother Diego that Giacometti executed at the same time, Grande tte de Diego demonstrates the artist's fascination with the emotive power of the face. It represents his most ambitious experiment in representation and reshaping of the head, resulting in a work of art that captures multiple incarnations of the model in one single form.

The first owner of this sculpture was Richard K. Weil (1902-1996), the St. Louis manufacturer and trustee of Washington University. Weil and his wife Florence Steinberg Weil were avid collectors of modern art and major benefactors of the University's Art Department and Gallery. The couple

acquired this bronze from Giacometti's European dealer Maeght in 1957 and sold it to the present owner in 1980.

**EXHIBITION CALENDAR Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center 3 7 October Sothebys London 12 16 October The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow 24 & 25 October Sothebys New York 1 5 November FOR MORE NEWS FROM SOTHEBYS Visit: www.sothebys.com/en/inside/services/press/news/news.html Follow: www.twitter.com/sothebys Join: www.facebook.com/sothebys & www.weibo.com/sothebyshongkong Watch: www.youtube.com/sothebys Sothebys has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744. Sothebys became the first international auction house when it expanded from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973) and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sothebys presents auctions in eight different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris, and Sothebys BidNow program allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids in real-time from anywhere in the world. Sothebys offers collectors the resources of Sothebys Financial Services, the worlds only full-service art financing company, as well as private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the gallery arm of Sothebys Contemporary Art department, as well as Sothebys Diamonds and Sothebys Wine. Sothebys has a global network of 90 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (BID).

*Estimates do not include buyers premium and prices achieved include the hammer price plus buyers premium. Images are available upon request All catalogues are available online at www.sothebys.com or through Sothebys Catalogue iPad App.
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PICASSOS GOLDEN MUSE STARS AT SOTHEBYS NEW YORK Highlight of The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale On 6 November 2013
NEW YORK, 3 October 2013 A radiant image from Pablo Picassos celebrated series depicting MarieThrse Walter, his young lover and muse, will highlight Sothebys Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 6 November 2013.

Tte de femme is one of the most vibrant examples of these euphoric and fantastical pictures from the early 1930s, which rank among the most instantly recognizable works of 20th century art. Painted in March of 1935, the work is distinguished as perhaps the last major canvas that the artist completed before taking a year-long break from painting, during the time of his contentious divorce from Olga Khokhlova as well as Marie-Thrses pregnancy with their child, Maya.

Tte de femme is estimated to sell for $20/30 million in the November auction*. The work will be on view in Hong Kong, London and Moscow before returning to New York for exhibition beginning 1 November**.

David Norman, Co-Chairman of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department Worldwide, commented: Of all the manifestations of Picasso's prolific career, it was during the reign of his golden muse Marie-Thrse Walter that his creativity was at its most powerful. His work was refreshed by his young love, inspiring him to paint the most colorful, joyful and ambitious compositions of his entire oeuvre. The market has demonstrated a great appreciation for this series Picassos depictions of Marie-Thrse have proven the most desirable of his works among todays collectors, and enjoy a truly global appeal.

In the last five years, six of Picassos depictions of Marie-Thrse have achieved prices of more than $20 million at auction. The most recent examples were sold at Sothebys in London and New York: Femme assise prs d'une fentre, which sold for $44.8 million in London in February 2013, and Nature morte aux tulipes, which sold for $41.5 million in New York in November 2012.

Picasso first saw Marie-Thrse Walter on the streets of Paris in 1927, when she was 17 years old, and while he was entangled in an unhappy marriage to Olga Khokhlova. The couple's relationship remained a well-guarded secret for many years. But the covertness of the affair only intensified Picasso's obsession with Marie-Thrse, and many of his pictures, with their dramatic contrasts of light and dark, allude to their secret interludes held under cover of darkness.

Soon after learning on Christmas Eve of 1934 that Marie-Thrse was pregnant with his child, Picasso promised to file for a divorce from Olga. His lawyers advised him to separate from his lover during the proceedings, which devastated the artist during this intimate time in their relationship. Soon after painting Tte de femme on 12 March 1935 when Marie-Thrse was just ending her first trimester of pregnancy he ceased all work on painting for a period of nearly a year. The present work stands as the last major canvas completed before this hiatus, drawing on Renaissance iconography to create a magnificent image of his Madonna.

**EXHIBITION CALENDAR Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center 3 7 October Sothebys London 12 16 October

The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow 24 & 25 October Sothebys New York 1 5 November FOR MORE NEWS FROM SOTHEBYS Visit: www.sothebys.com/en/inside/services/press/news/news.html Follow: www.twitter.com/sothebys Join: www.facebook.com/sothebys & www.weibo.com/sothebyshongkong Watch: www.youtube.com/sothebys Sothebys has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744. Sothebys became the first international auction house when it expanded from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973) and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sothebys presents auctions in eight different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris, and Sothebys BidNow program allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids in real-time from anywhere in the world. Sothebys offers collectors the resources of Sothebys Financial Services, the worlds only full-service art financing company, as well as private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the gallery arm of Sothebys Contemporary Art department, as well as Sothebys Diamonds and Sothebys Wine. Sothebys has a global network of 90 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (BID).

*Estimates do not include buyers premium and prices achieved include the hammer price plus buyers premium. Images are available upon request All catalogues are available online at www.sothebys.com or through Sothebys Catalogue iPad App.
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