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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.
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Original works by Alberto Giacometti available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
3 works by Alberto Giacometti online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
Three Men Walking, 1948-49
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by Alberto Giacometti
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Alberto Giacometti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
2 works by Alberto Giacometti online
Alberto Giacometti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Woman of Venice, 1956
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Three Men Walking II, 1949
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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
11 works by Alberto Giacometti online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
Alberto Giacometti at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Alberto Giacometti
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932
Woman Walking, 1932
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
4 works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Woman with Broken Shoulder (Femme, Épaule Cassée)
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
2 prints online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Venice Woman VII, 1956
Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Femme Couchee
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"
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portrait of Annette in Bed
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Biography and selected works
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Untitled, graphite drawing, 1921-23
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 Lucerne, Switzerland
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Homme qui marche, 1960
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Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French) 
Portrait de Diego ou Tête Noire, 1957
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Alberto Giacometti online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri NEW!
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)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Yanaihara
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Walking Man I
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Small Bust of Diego, 1958
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from past sales
2 sculptures
Professional Tools:
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Alberto Giacometti copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Alberto Giacometti at Insecula
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Stehende III
PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Artdreamguide (in Italian)
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work.
Dresdner Bank, Germany (in German)
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:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alberto Giacometti
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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
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: In Art, Genes Matter: Giacometti at MOMA
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: The Lust Exhibition Burnishes Giacometti
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