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Alberto Giacometti, rare vintage original poster
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Alberto Giacometti, rare vintage original poster
Texte : Rare vintage original poster published by the famous Paris Gallery Claude Bernard for an exhibition of Alberto Giacometti's work. Dimensions : 65 x 43 cm
Alberto Giacometti was a painter, engraver, furniture designer and sculptor. He is best known for the elongated, slender or scribbled human figures he created in the years following the Second World War, reflecting existentialism and the traumas associated with the conflict.
Giacometti was born into a creative family in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901. His father Giovanni was a post-impressionist painter, his godfather Cuno Amiet was a Fauvist painter, his brother Bruno was an architect and his other brother Diego was an artist and furniture designer.
From 1922, Giacometti studied at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière in Paris and was influenced by the cubist work of Alexander Archipenko, Raymond Jacques-Villon and the post-cubist sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens.
During the 1930s, Giacometti designed furniture such as lamps, vases and wall decorations for a living, often collaborating with interior designer Jean-Michel Frank, whose interiors tastefully blended extravagance with sophisticated simplicity. Giacometti's passion, however, lay in the creation of sculptures.
Giacometti became famous in the United States following two exhibitions in 1948 and 1950 at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York - Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the essay for the latter's catalog.In 1961, Giacometti's friend, the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, asked him to design the set for a new production of his play “Waiting for Godot”.
In 1962, Giacometti won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. Giacometti's works continue to fascinate collectors.In 2010, his life-size bronze sculpture L'Homme qui marche became one of the most expensive sculptures to be sold at auction.
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ConditionVery goodColorsWhite, BlackMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight65 cmWidth43 cm
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Saint-Didier, FranceOn Whoppah since January 2022 • 4 sales