Portrait de Nelda
1964
not on displayAlberto Giacometti1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa – 1966 Chur
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The portrait shows Nelda Negrini from Stampa, who modelled for three paintings by Giacometti. Her mother was a cousin of Alberto’s, while her grandmother was a dressmaker who sewed clothes for the Giacometti boys. Her brother worked as a cook at the Kronenhalle restaurant in Zurich.
Also known as
Bildnis Nelda
Portrait of Nelda
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 54.5 x 46 cm
Inventory number
GS 075
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Donated by the artist, 1965