Nu Debout 11 1963

Year1963

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromAuction House 2024 

Story / Additional InfoAlberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966) Title: Nu Debout 11 Facing Nude 2 Medium: Original Lithograph, 1963, on Rives paper, signed by the artist in pencil Publisher: Galería Maeght, París 1961Edition: 28/75Provenance: Galleria Maeght, Partis Spanish Collector Size: 759 x 559 mms (29 x 22 inches)Note: The artist made two Lithographic full length nude portraits in 1963 of which this is one. Both are illustrated in Lust. Reference: Herbert C Lust “Alberto Giacometti : The Complete Graphics” Number 36, page 49Jean Soldini, "Alberto Giacometti Grafica al confine fra arte e pensiero-Graphics on the border between arts and thought", Ed. Skira 2020, nº 210Kornfeld. Eberhard W, "Alberto Giacometti. Catalogue raisonné des estampes. 1917-1965", Ed. Fondation Giacometti / Editions Galerie Kornfeld, París-Berna 2016, FAAG 326/CMaeght Catalogue Number 238 

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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.