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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. And as an Existentialist after the war, he led the way in creating a style that summed up the philosophy's ...
- Swiss
- October 10, 1901
- Stampa, Graubunden, Switzerland
- January 11, 1966
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 ...
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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.
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.
Jun 5, 2017 · In advance of his retrospective at Tate Modern, Tate Etc. explores the life and work of the artist whose sculptures were filled with 'iconic dignity, a stillness, a solitariness, a sense of a dense inner life'. Alberto Giacometti modelling a bust in his studio in Stampa, Switzerland in 1965, photographed by Ernst Scheidegger.
Alberto Giacometti ( / ˌdʒækəˈmɛti /, [1] US also / ˌdʒɑːk -/, [2] [3] [4] Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on ...
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. Credit Line: The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002.
