Portrait Isaku Yanaihara

1957

Alberto Giacometti1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa – 1966 Chur
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Isaku Yanaihara (1918–1989) came to Paris from Japan in 1954 to study existentialist philosophy. Between 1956 and 1961 Giacometti made numerous paintings of him in which he develops his late style. This is an unusual example of a portrait that was not painted over after the first version.
Also known as
Portrait of Isaku Yanaihara
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 81 x 65.5 cm
Inventory number
GS 068
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1965