Etudes pour des sculptures

1947

not on display
Alberto Giacometti1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa – 1966 Chur
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Largest of several sketch-like canvases in progress in 1947, testimony to Giacometti's struggle against the shrinking of figures: at first there was only one large head on the canvas, which was covered in several steps with ever smaller heads and figures.
Also known as
Studien für Skulpturen Studies for Sculptures
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 110 x 40 cm
Inventory number
1991/0002
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by the Paul Büchi Foundation, 2008