Tag: Giacometti
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The $53 M. Wingate Collection Comes to Sotheby’s, Led by a $25 M. Giacometti
The collection of modern and contemporary art built over some seven decades by David and Shoshanna Wingate will come to auction at Sotheby’s New York and London over evening and day sales on May 19 and 20. The group of over 50 works, including canonical artists like Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth Noland, read more
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What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti
What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti “Everyone knows what a head is!” Thus André Breton—the imperious leader of the French Surrealist group with which Alberto Giacometti had made common cause in the late 1920s—chided the artist for his return to sculpting human likenesses after 1935. The Swiss-born, Paris-based Giacometti had distinguished his tenure read more
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Met Museum to Stage Giacometti Show in Temple of Dendur This Summer
The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti—a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any kind. The exhibition, read more
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