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Alberto Giacometti
[Swiss Surrealist Painter and Sculptor, 1901-1966]
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One day when I was drawing a young girl, I suddenly noticed that the only thing that was alive was her gaze. The rest of her head meant no more to me than the skull of a dead man. One does want to sculpt a living person, but what makes him alive is without doubt his gaze... Everything else is only the framework for the gaze.
| - quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
Alberto Giacometti Works Online
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Original works by Alberto Giacometti available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 7 works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW! "Artists in Depth" page for Alberto Giacometti
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History Three Men Walking II, 1949
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Tall Figure, 1948-49
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Flash site for a 2001 Alberto Giacometti Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Woman with Broken Shoulder (Femme, Épaule Cassée)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Hands Holding the Void
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Figure
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland
Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French)
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Femme Couchee
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French) Information about the 2007-2008 exhibition L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Photograph of Femme Qui Marche by Brassaï
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Femme bras tronqués
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland Several images from the 2002 exhibition: "Alberto Giacometti: The Mature Years"
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kunsthaus Zurich Note the links to Giacometti's works on the lower left of the page: Frühe Werke (Early Works), Surrealistische Werke (Surrealist Works), Reife Werke (Mature Works), Gemälde (Painting), Die Neuen Räume (New Areas)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "G"
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland Choose the artist from the drop-down list, and click "START"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark Homme qui marche, 1960 (click on the thumbnail to see a larger image)
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Femme de Venise VI, bronze sculpture, 1956
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Large Seated Woman
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (You need to click the "right" arrow fifteen times)
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French) Portrait de Diego ou Tête noire
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French) Giacometti: Paris sans fin
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French) Piz de la Margna, 1924
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Tête De Diego Sur Socle (Head of Diego), 1958
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey Male Saint and Two Figures (copy after Byzantine mosaic?)
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri Click "Index of Artists" for 3 works by Giacometti
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England Standing Woman
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German) Standing Figure - Head en face - Standing Figure
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German) Femme debout (Woman Standing)
State Museums of Berlin
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Head of Diego, 1956 (keep clicking "Next" to see it)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Venetian Woman IX, 1956-57 (keep clicking "Next" to see it)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada Tete de Diego
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART) Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales 2 sculptures online as you scroll down the page
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick Tall Figure IV, 1960
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Stehende III
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales Tête noire (Diego), 1951
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Kilidavid
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo The Surrealist Table
Philippe Gambette Web Site (in French) Photographs from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations Standing Woman, bronze
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alberto Giacometti Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Head, stainless steel sculpture, 1957
California Literary Review 2 works online
The London Evening Standard "The status symbol that commanded a king's ransom", 2010 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer "In Art, Genes Matter: Giacometti at MOMA", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "The Lust Exhibition Burnishes Giacometti", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker "The Thin Man", 2001 article by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice "Figure One", 2001 article by Jerry Saltz
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Mythic Giacometti
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A Giacometti Portrait
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Giacometti: A Biography
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Looking at Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
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Giacometti
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Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures
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Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings
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