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Important Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Sculptures and Multiples
Monday, 20 November 2017, 06:00 pm

HR Giger, Lovecrafts Haustiere

Lot 52

HR Giger, 1940-2014 (CH)

Lovecrafts Haustiere, 1978

Acrylic on paper.
H 300 mm W 210 mm.

(Frame). Signed and dated lower right:
H. Giger, 78.

CHF10'000 / 15'000
EUR9'000 / 13'000
USD11'000 / 16'000

Hammer Price: CHF 28'000

Annotation:

Titled lower left: Lovecrafts Haustiere.

Provenance:
Collection HHK, Zurich;
Swiss private property.

Exhibitions:
Paris, Halle Saint Pierre, 2004;
Vienna, Kunsthaus Wien, 2006.

Literature:
H.R. Giger.
H.R. Giger's Necronomicon 2. Zug,
Edition C, 1992.
No. 400, illustration in color.

Exhibition catalog. Halle Saint Pierre,
Le monde selon HR Giger,
13th September 2004 - 6th February 2005.
Paris, Halle Saint Pierre, 2004.
Page 72, illustration in color;

Exhibition catalog.
Kunsthaus Wien,
Giger in Wien, 24th May - 1st October 2006.
Vienna, Kunsthaus Wien, 2006.
Page 79, illustration in color;
Database Nr. 400.