"Alberto Giacometti"
2001-10-11 until 2002-01-08
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, USA

This is the first major New York City museum exhibition in almost three decades devoted to the work of the internationally renowned Swiss sculptor, painter, and draftsman Alberto Giacometti.

Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zürich, and with the active cooperation of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, the exhibition presents some ninety sculptures, forty paintings, and sixty drawings, including key examples from each of the artists major periods and works in plaster not usually seen outside of Zürich.

IMAGE:
Alberto Giacometti.
Spoon Woman. 1926-27.
Bronze, 57 x 20 ¼ x 8 ¼. (144.8 x 51.4 x 21 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Acquired through the Mrs. Rita Silver Fund in honor of her husband Leo Silver and in memory of her son Stanley R. Silver, and the Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hochschild Fund, 1986.

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