Alberto Giacometti. In search of missing works.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Fondation Giacometti in Paris from February 25 to June 17, 2020.

Alberto Giacometti. In search of missing works.

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N° d'inventaire 22770
Format 17 x 23.5
Détails 190 p., bound.
Publication Lyon, 2020
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782849756201

The result of an original investigation into Alberto Giacometti's lost sculptures, the exhibition highlights more than seventy works—reference sculptures, drawings, unpublished sketches, and archival photographs from the years 1920-1935. Alberto Giacometti experienced numerous phases of doubt throughout his career, which led him to tirelessly question his work. Often dissatisfied with the results, constantly searching, he oscillated between periods of destruction and rich phases of creation. Giacometti did not hesitate to rework his works even after exhibiting them, or even to abandon them when he deemed them to be failures. The exhibition The Vanished Work investigates these vanished or forgotten pieces, of which often only sketches or photographs taken in the artist's studio remain.

The result of an original investigation into Alberto Giacometti's lost sculptures, the exhibition highlights more than seventy works—reference sculptures, drawings, unpublished sketches, and archival photographs from the years 1920-1935. Alberto Giacometti experienced numerous phases of doubt throughout his career, which led him to tirelessly question his work. Often dissatisfied with the results, constantly searching, he oscillated between periods of destruction and rich phases of creation. Giacometti did not hesitate to rework his works even after exhibiting them, or even to abandon them when he deemed them to be failures. The exhibition The Vanished Work investigates these vanished or forgotten pieces, of which often only sketches or photographs taken in the artist's studio remain.