.Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti, in his Parisian workshop, working on a portrait among his sculpture projects, we recognize the plaster of "Large Head of Diego" and "The Walking Man", both of which will adorn the Giacometti Court at the Maeght Foundation. Photo by Ernst Scheidegger.
Alberto Giacometti, "Isaku Yanaihara", 1961.
"I had started posing with the frivolous idea that it would be a nice souvenir to have my portrait painted by Giacometti and as the days spent with him progressed I finally began to understand what a fantastic experience I had been in committed: in my entire life, I had never had such a valuable experience and would probably never have more. I had learned not only what the work of a true artist is, but also what. what true human freedom is. I discovered a depth and breadth in reality that I had not suspected before, the truth that I had sought within philosophy or art now appeared to me with greater clarity. striking immediacy."
Alberto Giacometti
On July 28, 1964, a few hours before the inauguration of the Maeght Foundation, Alberto Giacometti wandered alone in the room dedicated to him.
Magnificent, Alberto Giacometti with his sculpture "The Invisible Object".
The Invisible Object, a major work from 1934, is a turning point in the artist's career between cubism and surrealism.
Superb representation of the woman, here with long slender fingers which come together and seem to hold an absent object, like a perfect illustration of Surrealism.