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After Alberto Giacometti

Andirons, pair

Excalibur Bronze
1936 / c. 1980
cast bronze, enameled steel 13 h × 11½ w × 16 d in (33 × 29 × 41 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
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Impressed manufacturer's mark to each example ‘EX NY’.
literature: The Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Neiman Marcus catalog, 1980, fig. 53

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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