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Alberto Giacometti

[Swiss Surrealist Painter and Sculptor, 1901-1966]

• Relationships: Son of Giovanni Giacometti.
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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

 


 
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Original works by Alberto Giacometti available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by Alberto Giacometti

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City

Notable SiteHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online

Notable SiteAlberto Giacometti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
2 works by Alberto Giacometti online

Notable SiteAlberto Giacometti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Woman of Venice, 1956

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Three Men Walking II, 1949

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sculpture collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
11 works by Alberto Giacometti online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Flash site for a 2001 Alberto Giacometti Exhibition

Notable SiteNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

Notable SiteAlberto Giacometti at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Alberto Giacometti

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints

Notable SiteNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932
Woman Walking, 1932

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
4 works online

Notable SiteSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Notable SiteStädel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Woman with Broken Shoulder (Femme, Épaule Cassée)

Notable SiteYale 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

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Three Men Walking, 1948-49

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

Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel   NEW!

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

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 Basel, Switzerland
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Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland
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Alberto Giacometti in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Homme qui marche, 1960
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Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Large Seated Woman

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)   NEW!  
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

Palm Springs Desert Museum, California   NEW!
Tête De Diego Sur Socle (Head of Diego), 1958

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Alberto Giacometti online

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!
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

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Small Bust of Diego, 1958

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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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)   NEW!  
Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide

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)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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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
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University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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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

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
2 sculptures online as you scroll down the page

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:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia 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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

California Literary Review   NEW!
2 works online

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

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

Time Magazine
"An Obsession with Seeing", 1974 article by Robert Hughes


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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: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings


 
 
 
 
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Alberto Giacometti: l'Homme Qui Marche 1974
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