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  1. Jan 23, 2024 · Alberto Giacometti created a varied body of sculptures, paintings, and drawings, but he is best known for his sculptures of tall, thin, and rigid women and men often mounted on large bases. In the destructive wake of World War II, these figures--skeletal, seemingly anonymous and isolated--were embraced as powerful metaphors of the human condition.

  2. Artwork Details. Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: The Forest (Composition with Seven Figures and a Head) Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur) Date: 1950. Medium: Painted bronze. Edition: 1/6. Dimensions: 23 in. × 23 5/8 in. × 19 in. (58.4 × 60 × 48.3 cm)

  3. See all 85 artworks ›. Spoon Woman, 1926–27 (cast 1954) Alberto Giacometti. Walking Man II, 1960. Alberto Giacometti. Isaku Yanaihara, 1956. Alberto Giacometti. Tall Figure, 1947. Alberto Giacometti.

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  6. Alberto Giacometti was one of the outstanding artists of the 20th century. Shifting between sculpture, painting and drawing his career is marked by three key periods, the cubist, surrealist, and a later more mature period in which he explored rendering distance, and human presence.

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  8. image.png. +44 (0)131 624 6200 enquiries@nationalgalleries.org. Swiss-born sculptor Giacometti studied art in Geneva, moving to Paris in 1922 where he experimented with Cubism and became interested in primitive...

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