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Object Details

Artist

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss, b. Borgonovo, 1901–1966

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (probably acquired from the Artist), to 4 May 1957

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 4 May 1957-17 May 1966

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Exhibition History

[Possibly shown at PIERRE MATISSE GALLERY, New York, before or during 1957.]

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 83, ill p. 7. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 166, ill. p. 10.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 342, p. 246, p. 695.

ART GALLERY OF TORONTO. "Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture," 7 November 1981-3 January 1982, no. 102, p. 230, ill. p. 231.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966," 15 September-13 November 1988, no. 11, p. 84, ill. p. 85. TOUR: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 15 December 1988-5 February 1989.

CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid. "Alberto Giacometti," 4 November 1990-4 January 1991, no. 156, ill. p. 379.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York (organizer). "Picasso and the Iron Age," 1993. TOUR: MODERN ART MUSEUM, Fort Worth [only venue], 1 August-3 October 1993.

TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM, Taiwan. "The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum," 25 March-28 May 1995. TOUR: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SHIGA, Otsu, Japan, 1 July-6 August; ODAKYU MUSEUM, Tokyo, 9-27 August; IWAKI CITY ART MUSEUM, Iwaki, Japan, 23 September-5 November; TAKAMATSU CITY MUSEUM OF ART, 10 November-10 December.

ROYAL ACADEMY, London. "Alberto Giacometti," 10 October-1 January 1997.

MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. "Alberto Giacometti," 18 June-18 October 1998.

SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM, St. Petersburg, Florida. "Masterpieces of Surrealism," 29 January-16 April 2000, no. 24, ill, pp. 136, 187.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Alberto Giacometti," 10 October 2001-8 January 2002.

PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, New York. "Pierre Matisse and His Artists," 14 February-19 May 2002.

COMPLESSO DEL VITTORIANO, Rome. "Dada Into Surrealism," 8 October 2009-7 February 2010, color ill p. 305.

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY. "The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," 28 May-25 September 2011, color ill. p. 306, p. 323.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York," 29 October 2015-15 February 2016, p. 185.

Published References

GELDZAHLER, HENRY. "Taste for Modern Sculpture: The Hirshhorn Collection," Art News 61 (October 1962), pp. 31, 62.

READ, HERBERT. A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (New York: Praeger, 1964), no. 140, p. 293, ill. p. 143.

UNSIGNED. "New Books: A Concise History of Modern Sculpture," Studio International 168 (September 1964), ill. p. 138.

BRENSON, MICHAEL. "The Early Works of Alberto Giacometti 1925-1935," (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1974), checklist no. 52, pp. 233-34, fig. 25.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), fig. 342, pp. 246, 695.

EVANS, TAMARA, ed. Alberto Giacometti and America (New York: City University of New York, 1984), pp. 99, 104, 107.

FLETCHER, VALERIE J. The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum (Taipei: Fine Arts Museum, 1995), pp. 102-103, color ill. (Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1995), no. 44, pp. 94-95, color ill.

GRISWOLD, WILLIAM M. et al. Pierre Matisse and His Artists (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 2001), p. 60.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

1929/(cast c. 1950-1956)

Accession Number

66.2033

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

15 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 3 5/8 in. (39.4 × 31.7 × 9.3 cm)

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School

Surrealism (European)/Postwar European

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_66.2033

Metadata Usage (text)

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