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Details
- Date
- 1961
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- 47/75
- Dimensions
- 75.9 x 55.9 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Alberto Giacometti". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs Rosmarie Samuelson 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 133.2013
- Copyright
- © Estate of Alberto Giacometti/ADAGP. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Alberto Giacometti
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About
This lithograph provides an insight into one of the outstandingly original sculptors of the 20th century. Giacometti’s isolated figures often have a suggestion of existentialist tragedy, and he was indeed a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, who wrote on Giacometti’s work. As well as a sculptor, Giacometti was a significant graphic artist who produced over 55 lithographs and 20 etchings, as well as many additional prints to illustrate books. ‘Standing nude II’ is a late work from the 1960s, the decade when Giacometti produced his most majestic and accomplished lithographic prints.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
From Here, for Now, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Nov 2022–12 Feb 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti: the complete graphics, San Francisco, 1991, 49 (illus.), 233. no.36
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Provenance
Rosmarie Samuelson, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of Mrs Rosmarie Samuelson 2013. Purchased by Sameulson in Paris 1965