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2. www.getty.edu › art › collectionAlberto Giacometti (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)

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   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.

3. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionAlberto Giacometti | Tall Figure | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Tall Figure. Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur) Date: 1947. Medium: Bronze. Edition: 3/6. Dimensions: 79 1/2 × 8 5/8 × 16 1/4 in. (201.9 × 21.9 × 41.3 cm) Classification: Sculpture.

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   What makes Giacometti a great sculptor?

   • Giacometti’s postwar figure sculptures had skeletal bodies with gouged surfaces that surpassed the expressiveness of Rodin. The combination of fixed frontal stares and ravaged surfaces effectively keep the viewer at a distance, for seen up close the features dissolve into daubs and irregular textures.

   In Depth: Alberto - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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   What makes Alberto Giacometti a great artist?

   • Vulnerability, fragility, resilience, and strength are qualities conveyed by Alberto Giacometti’s work, created in the decades after World War II. Visitors are welcomed into the exhibition with vibrant early paintings and drawings that capture the mountainous landscape of Giacometti’s native Stampa in Switzerland.

   Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure - Seattle Art Museum

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   Who is Alberto Giacometti?

   • Walking Man I, 1960, Alberto Giacometti. Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it. Installation view of Alberto Giacometti: The Ultmimate Figure at Seattle Art Museum, 2022, photo: Alborz Kamalizad.

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   When did Giacometti become famous?

   • When Pierre Matisse showed Giacometti’s work at his gallery in 1949, the show created a sensation and immediately established his reputation in New York. The Steinbergs acquired this work out of the next show, held in November 1950. Title: The Forest (Composition with Seven Figures and a Head)

   Alberto Giacometti - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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5. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionAlberto Giacometti - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   Date: 1950. Medium: Painted bronze. Edition: 1/6. Dimensions: 23 in. × 23 5/8 in. × 19 in. (58.4 × 60 × 48.3 cm) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006. Accession Number: 2006.32.18. Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

6. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionAlberto Giacometti - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   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.

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8. www.seattleartmuseum.org › exhibitions › giacomettiAlberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure

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   Featuring more than 100 bronze portrait busts, towering statuettes, paintings, sketches, and prints, Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure documents the iconic explorations and visionary achievements of this internationally celebrated artist of the postwar era. Visit Giacometti in his famed Paris studio in scenes captured by noted ...

9. hirshhorn.si.edu › explore › in-depth-alberto-giacomettiIn Depth: Alberto Giacometti - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture ...

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   Giacometti’s postwar figure sculptures had skeletal bodies with gouged surfaces that surpassed the expressiveness of Rodin. The combination of fixed frontal stares and ravaged surfaces effectively keep the viewer at a distance, for seen up close the features dissolve into daubs and irregular textures.

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