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Alberto Giacometti Sculptor

Size and Relationship

“Man Striding” “Three Men Walking Pt. 2

“Tall Figure” 1949 Painted bronze Museum of Modern Art, NY

Alberto Giacometti Swiss, 1901-1966 Two Figurines (Deux figurines sur socles), ca. 1945 Gilded bronze, 1 7/16 x 7/16 x 7/16 in. (3.7 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm.) Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas 1985.A.25.01-02

Alberto Giacometti ( was born October 10, 1901 in an Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. He came from an artistic background. His father was a well known painter from the Post-Impressionist period. Alberto was the oldest of four children. He was especially close to his younger brother, Diego. From the age of 14, he made many portrait busts using Diego as his model - a bust is a sculpture of a person's head and shoulders. He was a Swiss painter, draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor. I think I like his Surrealistic sculptures the best. He is famous for his elongated human forms which depict the way a person sits in a car, the way a man crosses the street, the way a cafe table looks. During and after the time of WW2, he said…“I could not understand it. All my statues ended up one centimeter high. One more touch and hop! the statue vanishes.” Though, some inferred that his sensitivity to the nature of human existence was intensified by the horror of the war.