Design 
26 October 2023
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After Alberto Giacometti

Table lamps, pair

Excalibur Bronze
1935 / c. 1978
cast bronze, paper 29½ h × 18 dia in (75 × 46 cm)
estimate: $8,000–10,000
result: $50,400
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Impressed foundry mark to each base 'EX NY'.
literature: House & Garden, November 1968, pg. 117 illustrates related form House Beautiful, June 1998, ppg. 80-81 illustrate related form

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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In 1977 Nelson A. Rockefeller established The Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Inc. Working with with the Excalibur Bronze foundry in New York, Rockefeller had his collection of original works by Diego and Alberto Giacometti cast in bronze and reproduced in small editions. Reflecting on the endeavor, Rockefeller said, "To want beautiful things is a very human instinct. It has been seen down through the ages in the aesthetic quality of objects created for everyday use, in the art treasures created for religious purposes, and in objects to be taken into the afterworld."

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