Artist: Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting, Sculpture
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Biography:
Although he trained in Geneva, Alberto Giacometti settled and worked mostly in Paris. He began working in sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, but embraced Surrealism in 1930 on meeting Andre Breton. He also was interested in the intellectual aspects of Existentialism and studied in their circle with leader Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1935, Giacometti was forced out of the Surrealist movement and began to develop his own style of unusual, ghostly figure paintings. His sculpture contained the same abstract elements, most notably his bronze statue, Thin Man.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Alberto Giacometti, Nude with Flowers, 1960
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Alberto Giacometti, Nude in Profile, 1955
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Alberto Giacometti, Femme Qui Marche, 1955
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Alberto Giacometti, Chien, Chat, Tableau (Dog, Cat, Picture), 1956
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Alberto Giacometti, The Search, or Dans l"Atelier, from Paroles peintes, 1965
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Alberto Giacometti, Annette, p. 69, from the book Prints from the Mourlot Press, 1964
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Alberto Giacometti, MËre de l"Artiste, Lisant III (Mother of the Artist, Reading III), 1964
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Alberto Giacometti - Dog 1951 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - Walking Man II 1960 bronze National Gallery of Art Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - The Chariot 1950 painted bronze on wo The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - The Chariot 1950 painted bronze The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - The Palace at 4 A.M. 1932 wood, glass, wire, a The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - Study of a Head c. 1950 ball point pen Arkansas Arts Center Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - Standing Woman 1948 painted bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - Annette Seated 1958 oil and pencil on ca The Detroit Institute of Art Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - The Artist's Mother 1950 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - Standing Woman c. 1947 bronze National Gallery of Art Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - Woman with Her Throat Cut 1932 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - Tall Figure II 1960 bronze The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Alberto Giacometti - Standing Woman II 1960 bronze The Detroit Institute of Art Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - Tall Figure III 1960 bronze The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Alberto Giacometti 1965 Photograph, gelatin
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Alberto Giacometti - Bust of a Woman from the Left 1964 etching Arkansas Arts Center Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - L'homme au Doigt (Man Pointing) 1947 bronze Des Moines Art Center Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - Large Seated Woman 1958-59 bronze Milwaukee Art Museum Italian
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Alberto Giacometti - Man Crossing a Square on a Sunny Morning 1950 cast bronze The Detroit Institute of Art Swiss
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Alberto Giacometti - Hands Holding the Void (Invisible Object) 1934 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Robert Moskowitz - Giacometti Piece (For Bob Holman) 1984 pastel on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Alberto Pasini, Abbrutimento, 19th century
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Alberto Fontana, Warriors with their horses, 16th century
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C. Joseph Saunders, Alberto Thorwalsen, 18th - 19th century
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Alberto Beltr·n, Grinding Sugar Cane, 20th century
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Monogramist F. G., Alexander Treating with Talestris, the Queen of the Amazons, after Alberto Fontana, 16th century
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A Mosque, 1886 Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826-1899)Oil on canvas; 14 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.
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Alberto Maso Gilli, Les Chats, third plate, opposite p. 30 in the book, Catalogue complet d* eaux-fortes originales et inÈdites (Paris: Vve A. Cadart, 1878), 1876
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Alberto Salietti - The Country Woman 1925 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Alberto Pasini, Italian, 1825-1899 Courtyard in Constantinople Painting Italy, 1868 Oil on canvas 26 x
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The Mosque of Sultan Achmet, Constantinople, 1872 Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826-1899)Oil on canvas; 35 x
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish, 1598-1664 Saint Cyril of Constantinople about 1632 Oil on canvas 92.4
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Pair of Candlesticks

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (21)
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Museum of Modern Art: Alberto Giacometti

Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zürich, and with the active cooperation of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, the exhibition presents some ninety sculptures, forty paintings, and sixty drawings, including ...
Orlando Museum of Art: Traces of a Friendship: Photographs of Alberto Giacometti by Ernst Scheidegger
In 1990 Scheidegger published Traces of a Friendship. Alberto Giacometti, a book featuring a small selection of the numerous photographs he had taken of Giacometti and the artist’s work over a period of more than 20 years. The current exhibition i...
Portland Museum of Art: Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti includes 13 drawings, ranging from precise and light-filled interiors to the haunting stare of a masterful late drawing of his brother and frequent model, Diego. Lithography and etching became a natural extension of his drawing...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Derriere le Miroir: 35 Original Engravings from the Magazine 1946 to 1982
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Quen...
National Gallery of Art: Brassaï: The Eye of Paris
This exhibition is organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with funding provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston Endowment Inc., and The Wortham Foundation. ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Kunstverein Hannover: TAUCHFAHRTEN (DIVINGS) - Drawings as Reportage
In this regard, the historical development of the international link between drawing and reportage will play a decisive role in the exhibition. This also encompasses, aside from autobiographical and/or historical news coverage drawings that a...
Project Arts Centre: Gerard Byrne: In Repertory
In this spirit, the gallery will be transformed from a white cube into a black box, with theatrical elements such as a backdrop and lighting being introduced. In this environment, Byrne will place a number of objects that sit somewhere in the 'bli...
Tate St. Ives: David Nash: Making and Placing Abstract Sculpture 1978-2004
In David Nash's mind, the cardinal directions for mark-making apply to his favoured forms: vertical for the cube, horizontal for the sphere, and diagonal for the pyramid. While recognising Plato’s theory that we know these forms from the spiritual...
National Gallery of Canada: Ousmane Sow: Monumental Sculpture in Celebration of the IV Games of La Francophonie
Ousmane Sow was born in Dakar in 1935. On the death of his father, he left, almost penniless, for Paris. He dreamed of art, but had to study physical therapy. Sow lived in Paris for more than twenty years, always in contact with the works of th...
Adam Gallery: Eduardo Chillida 1924-2002
By 1951 his work transformed into a new abstract style using materials such as wood, steel and iron. Meeting Frank Lloyd Wright, Alberto Giacometti and later Joan Miro formed strong influences for him in his use of drawing in space and light in ...
Museum of Modern Art: The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream
One extreme was defined by the pure abstractions of painters such as Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who sought the systematic restructuring of reality through emphasis on the logic of form. For example, the spare black and white ...
Stedelijk Museum: Hans Josephsohn: Sculptures
Hans Josephsohn was born in Königsberg (1920), in East Prussia, as it was then. At 18 he left to study sculpture in Florence. Later that year, warned by friends, he moved to Switzerland - ahead of the advancing tide of anti-semitism. After roving ...
Art 32 Basel: Art Fair Opens Today
The new, 700-page catalogue prepared in cooperation with the renowned Hatje Cantz publishing house appeared just a few days ago. This provides a richly illustrated preview of Art Basel and a comprehensive overview of all that the international a...
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions
Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions will focus on five sculptures spanning Rosso’s mature career. The works are Aetas aurea (The Golden Age), 1886–87; Grande rieuse (Large Laughing Woman), 1891; Bambino ebreo (Jewish Boy), c. 1892–93; Bookmaker, c. ...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Guggenheim Museum: The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection
This exhibition is sponsored by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and Delta Air Lines. The permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation constitutes the very core of the institution, said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenhei...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Following the inaugural exhibition, the private collection of around 2,000 works of art, which has been loaned to the Hamburger Bahnhof for a period of seven years, will be gradually shown in its entirety in a series of temporary exhibitions. The ...
Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga: The Work of Gerhard Richter
Within the present exhibition, the emphasis is on Richter’s paintings based on photographs, his pure paintings, his famous grisailles and in particular the abstract expressionist works. In each one Richter reveals his virtuoso abilities with regar...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Passionate and Obstinate: The Lois Orswell Collection
Passionate and Obstinate (the phrase is Orswell’s self-description) will feature works from the Lois Orswell Collection as a cohesive group for the first time. Orswell was a distinctive collector whose methods were unlike those of her contemporari...

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Mark Hardens Artchive: Alberto Giacometti and the Surrealists
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