Alberto giacometti

(#46) Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti The Artist’s Mother 1950

Sculpting from models or imagination, Giacometti’s hand ate away flesh in his quest for a likeness beyond appearance, Peter Schjeldahl writes.

Alberto Giacometti

Although Alberto Giacometti is most often remembered for his towering statues and landscape paintings, the artist began every new project with a sketch. Preferring either a ballpoint pen or pencil, he referred to the act of drawing as the “basis” for all of his artworks. In Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure—the extensive retrospective which …

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An exhibition of portraits by Alberto Giacometti is to open at the National Portrait Gallery in London this autumn. The first …

At the show “In Search of Lost Works,” curators at the Institut Giacometti in Paris highlight nearly 50 objects from the beloved sculptor’s early career that have never been found.

Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss sculptor and painter, had a profound and existential philosophy that greatly influenced his art. Central to his philosophy was the exploration of the human condition, particularly the themes of existence, perception, and identity. Giacometti was deeply interested in the nature of reality and the human experience of being in the world. He believed that art had the power to reveal fundamental truths about existence, and he sought to capture the essence of human…

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View Tête de femme (Portrait d'Annette) (Circa 1955) By Giacometti Alberto; ball-point pen on the back of a book cover; 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 in. (16.8 x 10.4 cm.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.