Walking Man 1964
Alberto Giacometti
Limited Edition Print : Etching on Paper
Size : 9.84x6.3 in | 25x16 cm
Edition :
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Year1964
Hand SignedSigned By the Artist in Pencil And Dated
Condition Excellent
Other Frame
Provenance / HistoryLeslie Hindeman Auctioneers, sold 15/5/2014 rn
Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage
LID110037
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.