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These drawings, so casual and so gorgeous, trump their quotidian supports. Springing from the page, Giacometti’s line confounds the day’s news with a glimpse of eternity. Jed Perl is the art ...
Both works are etched with the signature of Alberto Giacometti ... drawings, which are labeled Têtes (recto) and Nu debout (verso), are both explorations of the human form. They fall in line ...
Guggenheim Museum & Alberto Giacometti: A Biography by Catherine Grenier. At the Guggenheim, the artist’s work looks resplendent spiraling up the museum’s ramp. This is a large show, with nearly two ...
These days, Alberto Giacometti is seen as the paradigm ... Beginning with Jean-Paul Sartre’s catalogue essay of 1948, Giacometti’s attenuated sculptures and scratchy paintings and drawings have been ...
Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked.
Many of Alberto Giacometti’s figures ... from 1936 to 1953 show the evolution to a more abstracted style. Giacometti’s drawings are fascinating, especially the ones rendered in ball point ...
Fondation Giacometti @ Succession Alberto Giacometti/Adagp, Paris 2024 Giacometti’s drawings map the head, body and surrounding space with crossing lines, getting the proportions and distances ...
The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor whose spindly bronze bust of his younger brother Diego was expected to be the priciest piece of New York ...
In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets ... particularly when Peppiatt describes Giacometti’s drawings or compares works I couldn’t easily ...
Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds. The Swiss artist (1901-1966) with the Italian name lived in Paris for most of his adulthood, and ...
The expansive showcase offers an in-depth exploration of the renowned 20th century Swiss artist's work, spanning sculpture, painting, graphics, and drawing. Alberto Giacometti’s fame rests on ...