David Hunt

Alberto Giacometti

Angelo Filomeno

André Parinaud

entretien avec André Parinaud

Pourquoi je suis sculpteur?

A Tribute to A.G.

Alberto Giacometti & Tahar Ben Jelloun ; Translated from French by Alan Sheridan

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Alberto Giacometti & Tahar Ben Jelloun

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Giacometti, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and the Fondation Giacometti, Paris.

Giacometti

The exhibition brings together some 120 works and photographs on loan from international museums and private collectors in Duisburg. Each of the works is an almost indispensable component of the exhibition of the Woman With Chariot. The exhibition showcases over 30 sculptures, paintings and prints, more than 40 original photographs, documents and archival materials. The 153.5-centimeter-high Woman With Chariot was built around 1945 in the studio of the sculptor, who worked during the war in Geneva and Maloja. It is the only plaster sculpture by Giacometti in a German museum.

Alberto Giacometti: Woman with chariot

Dieter Koepplin

Gabriella Zinke

Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur

In 2009 the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (Museum of Art of the Grisons) in Switzerland purchased a collection of photographs of and drawings by Alberto Giacometti (1901–66). The collection includes around one hundred photographs and a number of drawings, the majority of which have never before been published and are previously unseen. Taken by such celebrated photographers as May Ray, Henri Cartier Bresson, and Cecil Beaton, the photographs show Giacometti as a young artist bursting with energy during his first stay in Paris; at work at his legendary studios in Paris and his native Val Bregaglia in Switzerland; lighthearted in the company of his wife, Annette, or in discussion with friends; posing with his sculptures; and in silent dialogue with his models. The drawings are mainly sketches on pages from newspapers and magazines. The entire collection, along with the analyses and commentary presented here, greatly enriches our understanding of Alberto Giacometti as both an artist and a person.

Unknown Photographs and Drawings

The Unseen Giacometti

Yves Bonnefoy

Giacommetti was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Breaking both with the figurative tradition and with contemporary tendencies that gave priority to the play of signs over the exploration of the human condition, he developed an art that speaks with unmatched gravity and intensity of the presence of other beings--for beings standing before him in that moment of their existence. This art is not simply art: it is a metaphysical and moral statement of the kind that society needs.

Monique Meyer

Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was one of the leading surrealist sculptors and inarguably one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. In this book, Monique Meyer presents previously unpublished drawings and watercolours by the prolific artist from the collection Giacometti's youngest brother Bruno bequeathed to Kunsthaus Zurich.

Zeichnungen und Aquarelle : Das Legat Bruno Giacometti

Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre and a Letter from Alberto Giacometti. [Exhibition Held] January 19 to February 14, 1948

Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings [by Alberto Giacometti]

Valentina Castellani

This book shows the work of Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon which was inspired by Isabel Rawsthorne. Isabel herself was an artist who moved to Paris in the mid-1930s and both the artists had a unique and special relationship with Isabel at different times in their lives.

Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers

Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon

Véronique Wiesinger

Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou

Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti

This publication and the accompnaying exhibition echo Jean Genet's famous 1957 essay, L'Atelier d'Alberto Giaocometti. Both explore the various facets of the now famous studio on rue Hippolyte Maidron - laboratory, ritual place and major component of the artist's work. This studio where Giacometti, one of the 20th century's major artists, lived from 1926 to 1965, is probaby placed at the very core of the building, the presentation and the disemination of his work and his own image. This book is illustrated by many previously unseen archives.

Collection of the Fondation Alberto Et Annette Giacometti

The Studio of Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

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