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Woman of Venice IX (Femme de Venise IX)

Artist Alberto Giacometti Swiss, 1901–1966

Date1956, cast 1958

MediumBronze with black patina

Dimensions44 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 14 1/4 in. (113 x 17.1 x 36.2 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Sara Lee Corporation

Object number99.5

On View

On view

ProvenanceGalerie Maeght, Paris, 1958; Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 1958; World House Galleries, New York, 1959; sold to Nathan Cummings, Chicago, ca. 1961; to wife, Joanne Toor Cummings, 1985; to Cummings Estate, 1995; Sale, New York, Christie's April 30, 1996, lot 20; The Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago, IL; given to NCMA, 1999.Published ReferencesAlberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965),68, illus. (another cast)

Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1970), 79.

Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti (New York: Abrams, 1971), illus. no. 119 (another cast).

Alberto Giacometti (exhibition catalogue) (Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght, 1978), 102.

James Lord, Giacometti: A Biography (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1985), 355-58, 382, 485, illus. (b-w, another cast) following 304.

Herbert and Mercedes Matter, Alberto Giacometti (New York: Abrams, 1987), 119-120.

Yves Bonnefoy, Giacometti (Paris: Flammarion, 1991), no. 382, illus.

Alberto Giacometti, sculptures, peintures, dessins (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1991), no. 382, illus.

Angela Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings (Munich & New York: Prestel, 1994), 32-33, illus. (b-w, another cast) nos. 108-114.

Richard R. Brettell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation, 5th ed. (New York: Abbeville, 1997), 124-125, 153 (as Venetian Woman IX), illus. (color).

Geoff Edgers, "Gift of skinny sculpture beefs up museum," Raleigh: The News and Observer (June 4, 1998), 1-16A.

Richard R. Brettell, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), cat. no. 14, illus. (color).

John W. Coffey, "Portrait of the Artist: Alberto Giacometti," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (September/October 1999), 20-21, illus. (b-w) 20.

"Principales Aquisitions des Musées en 2000," La Chronique des Arts, Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1586 (March 2001), listed 85.

Chad Alan Weinard, entry for Woman of Venice IX (Femme de Venise IX), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 478, illus. (color) 479.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, World House Galleries, "Giacometti," January 12-February 6, 1960, no. 11 (as Figurine Venise IX).

New York, World House Galleries, "Summer International," June 27-August 4, 1961, no. 23.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection," June 29-September 11, 1970, no. 71.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection," July 1-September 7, 1971, no. 71.

Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, "Major Works from the Collection of Nathan Cummings," October 20-December 9, 1973, no. 78.

Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, "The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy," October 18, 1997-February 15, 1998, no.__.

Singapore, Singapore Museum of Art, "Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation," April 1-May 30, 1999; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 11-August 22, 1999; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10-November 7, 1999; Portland, OR, Portland, Art Museum, November 19, 1999-January 25, 2000; Chicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, March 15-May 28, 2000, no. 14, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

Brunswick, ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, "Reopening Exhibition," October 14, 2007-June 22, 2009.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 22, 2023.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Artist's Models," November 4, 2024-present.

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