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Walking Man and other human figures. Giacometti is best known for the bronze sculptures of tall, thin human figures, made in the years 1945 to 1960. [23] Giacometti was influenced by the impressions he took from the people hurrying in the big city. People in motion he saw as "a succession of moments of stillness".
L'Homme au doigt ([lɔm o dwa], "The Man with the Finger"; also called Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, that became the most expensive sculpture ever when it sold for US$141.3 million on May 11, 2015. Giacometti made six casts of the work plus one artist's proof.
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Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur) Date: 1949. Medium: Bronze. Edition: 1/6. Dimensions: 30 1/8 in. × 13 in. × 12 3/4 in. (76.5 × 33 × 32.4 cm) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998. Accession Number: 1999.363.22. Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights ...
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Alberto Giacometti's remarkable career traces the shifting enthusiasms of European art before and after the Second World War. As a Surrealist in the 1930s, he devised innovative sculptural forms, sometimes reminiscent of toys and games.
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- October 10, 1901
- Stampa, Graubunden, Switzerland
- January 11, 1966
Jun 5, 2017 · What more could painting and sculpture mean, or do, as Alberto Giacometti, who was born in 1901, began to work? What could the statue, the bust, the pictorial surface, or indeed the lithograph look like if it had to seem both knowing and pure, and also be refracted in the viscous, complex and uneasy waters of the symbol and the self?
Grande tête mince is a bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti. The work was conceived in 1954 and cast the following year. Auctioned in 2010, Grande tête mince became one of the most valuable sculptures ever sold when it fetched $53.3 million. Description.
Alberto Giacometti. Man Pointing. 1947. Bronze. 70 1/2 x 40 3/4 x 16 3/8" (179 x 103.4 x 41.5 cm). Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller. 678.1954. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Painting and Sculpture.
