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Alberto Giacometti | MoMA Giacometti Sculpture, Giacometti Art, Male Statue, Paris Painting, Wire Sculptures, Alberto Giacometti, Chur, Modern And Contemporary Art, Caravaggio

Swiss, 1901–1966. In the winter of 1947, Alberto Giacometti wrote a letter to Pierre Matisse, a gallerist in New York who was organizing an exhibition of his works. “Here is the list of sculptures that I promised you,” the letter began, “but I could not make it without including, though very briefly, a certain chain of events.”1 The “chain of events” starts with the artist’s youth in Switzerland in the early 1900s, then proceeds to his search for new modes of artistic expression in the 1920s…

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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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21 Facts About Alberto Giacometti | Impressionist & Modern Art | Sotheby’s Giacometti Paintings, Wall Patina, Giacometti Art, Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti, Old Wall, Great Paintings, First Photograph, Post Impressionists

1. Alberto Giacometti was born in Switzerland to an artistic family in 1901. His father was post-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti; his father’s second cousin was Symbolist painter Augusto Giacometti; and his godfather Fauvist Cuno Amiet. In addition to his three younger siblings, two of"u2026

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