Nu Aux Fleurs 1960

Year1960

Hand SignedSigned By the Artist in Pencil 

Condition Other - Very Minor stains and folds 

Provenance / HistoryDealer 

Story / Additional InfoLiterature: rnHerbert Lust “Alberto Giacometti The complete graphics” Number 32rnGalerie Maeght Catalogue number 233rnPublished by: Maeght Editeur , Parisrn 

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Alberto Giacometti - Switzerland

Art Brokerage: Alberto Giacometti Swiss Artist: b.1901-1966. Alberto Giacometti, the Surrealist sculptor known for his nervous, elongated forms, was born in Stampa, Switzerland. Giacometti started drawing at the age of nine, painting at twelve and created his first sculpture at fourteen. His father was a well-known Impressionist painter and Giacometti's first teacher. In 1919, Giacometti began studying sculpture in Geneva and then, for three years, with Bourdelle in Paris. When he began to work on his own, Giacometti found that he had difficulty working from the figure which seemed to disintegrate as he worked. He tried working instead from his imagination and continued to do so for ten years. At this time Cubism, African art and the sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz, influenced his work. His style gradually changed to become first thin and tablet-like and then solid and compact, in structures like "The Couple", and "Spoon Woman". These last were bizarre, amusing monoliths, monumentally concave, combining a powerful physical confrontation with erotic content. Listings wanted.