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A fragment of a being with a soul. ‘Walking Man II,’ 1960, Bronze, 190×112.5×28 cm. Finn Brøndum, Fondation Giacometti @ Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris, 2024 Toward the end of ...
Yet Alberto ... Giacometti's work always reflected the 'individual wound that each person carries within him'. In the late 1940s, he made several sculptures on the subject of the walking man ...
Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall ... These sculptures — with stripped-down titles like “Standing Woman” and “Walking Man” — have been collected by major museums around ...
The Barbican’s new exhibition space opens with an ‘encounter’ that exposes the two artists’ differences as much as their similarities ...
Iconic sculptures by Giacometti including Walking Man I (1960) and The Cage (1950) will be on display at the Barbican during the three exhibitions. Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in a ...
Alberto Giacometti’s haunting figures stand so ... Giacometti adapted the wide gait of “Walking Man I” and the figures of “Three Men Walking” from statues of Egyptian pharaohs and ...
Many of Alberto Giacometti’s figures ... Maybe it can be found in a pair of large pieces, “Walking Man” and “Tall Woman IV.” The man is frozen mid-stride, his face determined and ...
Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked.