Alberto giacometti is best known for his elongated withered representations of the human form including his 1960 sculpture walking man i which in 2010 broke the record for a work of art at auction at 104 3 million after experimenting with cubism and surrealism in forms influenced by primitive art psychoanalytic theory and toys giacometti broke from surrealism and began his radical. Giacometti was one of the most important. 10 october 1901 11 january 1966 was a swiss sculptor painter draftsman and printmaker beginning in 1922 he lived and worked mainly in paris but regularly visited his hometown borgonovo to see his family and work on his art.
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Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. View alberto giacometti s 5 228 artworks on artnet. Alberto giacometti was a swiss artist known for his totemic sculptures of elongated human figures.
In a photograph from 1930 an abstract bronze sculpture of two copulating figures hangs on the wall of a. Written by jacqui palumbo cnn. The search for alberto giacometti s lost sculptures.
Some were influenced by primitive art but perhaps most striking were those that resemble games toys and. In an effort to explore themes derived from freudian psychoanalysis like sexuality obsession and trauma he developed a variety of different sculptural objects. Giacometti s work of the 1930s represents probably the most important contribution to surrealist sculpture.
Alberto giacometti is best known for his elongated withered representations of the human form including his 1960 sculpture walking man i which in 2010 broke the record for a work of art at auction at 104 3 million after experimenting with cubism and surrealism in forms influenced by primitive art psychoanalytic theory and toys giacometti broke from surrealism and began his radical. See available prints and multiples works on paper and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.
View alberto giacometti s 5 228 artworks on artnet.
Sculptures alberto giacometti artworks. Alberto giacometti italian pronunciation. 10 october 1901 11 january 1966 was a swiss sculptor painter draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922 he lived and worked mainly in paris but regularly visited his hometown borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Although works like gazing head caught the attention of the surrealists it was suspended ball first exhibited at galerie pierre in 1930 that prompted andré breton to invite giacometti to join the group the sculpture s white globular form at once floating freely and trapped in a cage and the enigmatic segment below it all evinced the dream like and erotic qualities that.
10 october 1901 11 january 1966 was a swiss sculptor painter draftsman and printmaker beginning in 1922 he lived and worked mainly in paris but regularly visited his hometown borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Alberto giacometti was a swiss artist known for his totemic sculptures of elongated human figures.
Alberto giacometti was a swiss artist known for his totemic sculptures of elongated human figures. 10 october 1901 11 january 1966 was a swiss sculptor painter draftsman and printmaker beginning in 1922 he lived and worked mainly in paris but regularly visited his hometown borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Although works like gazing head caught the attention of the surrealists it was suspended ball first exhibited at galerie pierre in 1930 that prompted andré breton to invite giacometti to join the group the sculpture s white globular form at once floating freely and trapped in a cage and the enigmatic segment below it all evinced the dream like and erotic qualities that.
Beginning in 1922 he lived and worked mainly in paris but regularly visited his hometown borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. 10 october 1901 11 january 1966 was a swiss sculptor painter draftsman and printmaker. Alberto giacometti italian pronunciation.
