Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Fred Licht.

Artist:
Alberto Giacometti.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition builds on the previous exhibition Le sculture di Alberto Giacometti dalle collezioni Guggenheim, bringing together further works by Giacometti, on loan from the Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum in New York and from the Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection in Dallas Texas. In addition to six works from the Peggy Guggenehim Collection, the exhibition includes a series of three busts dedicated to the artist’s brother titled Diego (1954) and the work Donna Venezia III from the Nasher collection which also forms part of Giacometti’s standing woman series, created for the French pavilion for the 1956 Venice Biennale. The exhibition includes works in gesso, bronze, wood, paper and oil on canvas. Also on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum were two sculptures (Il Naso e Donna cucchiaio), three drawings, and one painting (Diego). Works such as Donna cucchiaio, Donna sgozzata, Donna che cammina and Modello per una piazza draw attention to Giacometti’s sojourn in Paris during the 1920s as well as his ‘surrealist’ period from 1930 to 1935. Also, the exhibition includes later works which exemplify Giacometti’s more mature style and illustrate some of his preferred themes such as the standing figure, busts, fragments and portraits.

Catalogue:
No catalogue.