ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (SWISS 1901-1966) §
SEATED NUDE 2
£500
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Description
Lithograph, 1961, from Derrière le Miroir, No 127, dedicated to the artist, unframed
and another, similar
Dimensions
38cm x 27.5cm (15in x 10.75in)
Footnote
Biography:
Alberto Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century. He was greatly influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, as well as philosophical questions about the human condition. After 1935, he discarded his Surrealist influences to further explore figuration. Sculpture was his primary mode of working, and he also wrote, both publically in periodicals and exhibition catalogues, and privately, in notebooks and diaries. Painting was a small section of his artistic output, but he did work through his visual ideas in printmaking.