FBI says art in big NYC collection was stolen Aug 12, 2008
A stolen bust by Alberto Giacometti is valued at about $1 million. The FBI has posted pictures of many of the pieces online so people might claim them. (KRNV.com, NV)
American art's heroic moment Jul 13, 2008
Actually, the foreheads this Zeus springs from belong to Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro and Andr. Masson, but as European artists their role is underplayed. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Monet, Picasso to Anchor $1.2 Billion London Sales; Russian Buyers Courted Jun 19, 2008
Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti pieces will be among the items on offer at Impressionist and modern auctions. Wealthy buyers from Russia and elsewhere last month shrugged off economic slowdown to pay record prices in New York. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Contemporary art to be taken to a new high Jun 12, 2008
Tilted Maeght: Art Without Boundaries, the exhibition includes more than 30 works by internationally acclaimed artists, such as Joan Miro of Spain, Alberto Giacometti of Switzerland, Marco Del Re of Italy, Aki Kuroda of Japan, Xavier Grau of Spain, Selma Gurbuz of Turkey, Luc Doerflinger of France, and Walasse Ting of China. All works are on loan from the Maeght Gallery, a well-known private gallery in France. (Xinhuanet, China)
London's Victoria & Albert Museum May 26, 2008
This exhibition features 60 works by 38 artists and explores how books have been treated by such notable names as Pablo Picasso, Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti and Roy Lichenstein. The display features sculptures, manuscripts and books including Anish Kapoor's , a book sculpture in four parts. (Suite101.com)
Seasonal Sales Lack Spring May 17, 2008
Femme de Venise VIII,' by Alberto Giacometti, conceived in 1956 and cast at a later date ... Christie's sold Alberto Giacometti's hauntingly thin bronze figure of a woman, "Grande femme debout II," for a record $27. (Wall Street Journal)
Art "think tank" - a Swiss face in New York May 13, 2008
Some of the country's most notable artists have indeed been shown here, including sculptor Alberto Giacometti and mixed media artist Dieter Roth, who worked in chocolate. Nevertheless, as the country's diplomatic officials explain it, to be Swiss these days is not necessarily to be traditionally Swiss, but rather international and outward looking. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
* Record art prices soothe downturn worries May 10, 2008
Among the highlights were works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne, while records were set for Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Spanish surrealist Joan Miro. Monets Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge described by Christies as a truly exceptional picture, sold for a record US$41. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Melotti has retrospective in New York May 10, 2008
His work has been linked to the cagelike Surrealist constructions of Alberto Giacometti, the early wire sculptures of Lucio Fontana, the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and even the playful mobiles of Alexander Calder. Melotti's art has appeared sporadically in group shows of Italian sculpture, but he has never had a solo exhibition in New York. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
New York auction records help ease fears over art market May 9, 2008
Among the highlights were works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne, while records were set for Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Spanish surrealist Joan Miro. Monet's "Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil," an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris and described by Christie's as a "truly exceptional picture," sold for a record 41. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Souren Melikian: In a changed world, million-dollar works continue to soar May 9, 2008
Later, the story repeated itself when came the turn of "Grande femme debout II," cast in 1960, only months after Alberto Giacometti molded the model. The outsized figure of a woman was cast in an edition of six in the Susse foundry. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Monet sells for record $43.6m May 8, 2008
Besides the Monet, records were also set for French impressionist Auguste Rodin, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti and Spanish surrealist Joan Miro. Rodin's bronze - Eve, grand modele - version sans rocher - went for $US18. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Art market shows strength at Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern Art May 8, 2008
A third telling record was set for Alberto Giacometti when the largest sculpture he ever made, "Grande femme debout II" sold for $27. 48 million. (International Herald Tribune)
Records fall at NY art auction, foreigners dominate May 7, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Art records fell on Tuesday for works by Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin and Alberto Giacometti in New York City at a Christie's auction dominated by foreign buyers taking advantage of the weak U.S. dollar. The auction house reaped more than $277. (Reuters)
First solo show of renowned artist Alberto Giacometti opens in S'pore May 2, 2008
SINGAPORE: For the first time in Singapore and Southeast Asia, art fans can get up close with the works of renowned Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti ... Alberto Giacometti, regarded as a path-breaking and provocative artist in his time is best known for his elongated and thin sculptural figures ... Being: Alberto Giacometti is open to the public from 1 May to 15 June. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Show reveals 1930s race to 'build a new man' Mar 20, 2008
Among the highlights are Max Ernst's famous 1937 oil The Fireside Angel; two of Salvador Dali's greatest paintings, 1943's Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man and, from 1936, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War); and the Alberto Giacometti bronze Woman with Her Throat Cut. The second big exhibition at the National Gallery this year will be Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, organized by gallery deputy director and chief curator David... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
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Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
"Smoke" serves as a gateway to stellar objects upstairs in the Lazarof Collection, including an ensemble of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, outstanding paintings by Picasso from several phases of his career, and works by Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Louise Nevelson and others. Several members of the art press at the preview likened their encounters with the Lazarof Collection to wandering in MOMA before its 21st century renovation. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Koto takes full advantage of fluid beauty of sculpture Jan 24, 2008
The elongated forms and the highly textural surfaces of Koto's works showed the influence of the Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) while Koto's fondness for the horse and its rider could be traced back to another Italian artist Marino Marini (1901-1980). Those influences notwithstanding, prominent art critic and collector Oei Hong Djien underlined, Koto is an artist, who has succeeded in finding his own artistic expression. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
A comparable elaboration is something that happens time and again here, not least with Alberto Giacometti. Seven Giacometti bronzes, spanning 1934 to 1960, now join the two standing women LACMA owned. (Los Angeles Times)
How to bring the past to life in 2008 Jan 11, 2008
With a nod to lamps made by late sculptor Alberto Giacometti, owners of L.A.'s Bourgeois Boh. me have fashioned the hand-plastered Couronnes chandelier ($4,150), top right, a vision of soft-white minimalism. (FOX59, IN)
When science meets art Jan 10, 2008
Look for works from such European masters as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and Wassily Kadinsky. A few North Americans also will appear, including Canada's Alex Colville and America's Jackson Pollock. (Ottawa Citizen)
L.A. museum given Picasso, Matisse works Dec 14, 2007
The gift from Janice and Henri Lazarof includes 20 works by Picasso; two versions of Constantin Brancusi's signature bronze, "Bird in Space;" seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti; two dozen works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger and Impressionist pieces by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro. "It's a major deal to get this work in one fell swoop, at a time when the art market has made it nearly impossible for museums to purchase work of this quality,"... (MSNBC -- News)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
Huge gift helps LACMA enter the modern age - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive. " ADVERTISEMENT The museum did not disclose the value of the artworks, but recent auction sales of similar pieces suggest that the collection is worth more than $100 million. It is the largest single donation of its kind locally and one that will greatly enhance LACMA's collection. "It's a major deal to get this work in one fell swoop, at a time when the art market has made it nearly impossible for museums to purchase... (Los Angeles Times)
Cranach the Elder Was `Fastest' Painter; Frankfurt Shows He Was Good, Too Nov 23, 2007
These idealized, erotic long-limbed nudes with their elfin faces inspired Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Take the flirtatious ``Venus'' (1532). (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Between one breath and the next Oct 30, 2007
Alberto Giacometti lived and worked in the same decrepit Montparnasse studio for 40 years, having taken it on in 1926, a few years after arriving in Paris from Switzerland as a student ... The Pompidou Centre's marvellous L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti is a retrospective featuring not only Giacometti's sculptures, paintings and drawings, but also the studio itself - what went on there, and what was removed after the artist's death, including sections of the walls on which he drew and painted ...... (Guardian Unlimited)
In the storm of the eye Oct 28, 2007
Stare at an artwork and you're likely to find it staring provocatively back in three Paris exhibitions: the paintings of Gustave Courbet, the photographs of Edward Steichen and the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti ... L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti Centre Pompidou, until 11 Feb ... At the Pompidou Centre there are photographs aplenty too in the wonderful celebration of Alberto Giacometti's life and work. (Guardian Unlimited)
100 years old Sep 12, 2007
But in recent years, Bruno Giacometti and his late wife Odette donated many works to the Alberto Giacometti Foundation in Zurich and other museums as a way of preserving the Giacometti heritage in Switzerland. The family comes from a small Italian-speaking valley in canton Graubnden. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Alberto Sughi: 1946 to Present Jul 26, 2007
Within the context of Italian art, Sughis work, in its rapport with that of Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier and the Informal movement, represents an essential step towards a new idea of figurative art. Alberto Sughi is certainly one of the most important painters to emerge during the complex post-war art scene, in the debate between realism and abstraction, and one of the artists who have continued their artistic research with the greatest coherence, becoming a point of... (AbsoluteArts.com)
What's glowing in the Golden State Jul 8, 2007
Represented are Robert Adams, Saul Baizerman, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Dame Elisabeth Frink, and Alberto Giacometti. The artworks are in the Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden and the Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace. (Boston Globe)
Show helps you form a different picture of Matisse Jul 1, 2007
zanne, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin. Together, they convey the wonder of human movement in a show that is itself moving. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Art Imitating Art Jun 17, 2007
During the 1980s and '90s, he painted works in the style of Picasso, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and others. Along with his partner, John Drewe, Myatt was able to create paintings that fooled major auction houses into paying out as much as 30,000 pounds for what they believed was a genuine work by a major artist. (CTNow.com)
A master of the canvas who also tried his hand at sculpture Jun 10, 2007
They appear among similarly simplified, but dramatically individual works by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Charles Despiau (1874-1946), Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964). In the background hang two color stencil pieces based on Matisse's late paper cuts, each an abstracted torso whose unity implies -- and seems to inspire in its viewers -- an unseen human wholeness. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Giacometti record set at $18.5m May 12, 2007
A work by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti has sold for $18. 5m (9. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A bullish mood prevails at Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern art May 11, 2007
The first truly substantial work, lot 6 in the sale, was a tall scraggy bronze signed Alberto Giacometti and cast in 1957 in an edition of six. Christie's hoped it would sell between $3. (International Herald Tribune)
The Surrealist comeback in design Mar 27, 2007
Aragon and Meret Oppenheim, and the interior designer, Jean Michel Frank, with Man Ray and Alberto Giacometti. But there were also a great many uninspired takes on Surrealism, which reduced it to a decorative style, stripped of its early radicalism. (International Herald Tribune)
Raymond D. Nasher, 85; banker, arts patron helped start 2 museums Mar 21, 2007
The $70-million Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, which was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 2003, includes pieces by Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Serra and Alexander Calder. In 2005, the Nasher Museum of Art opened at Duke University, his alma mater. (Los Angeles Times)
Richard Serra unveils models of the massive sculptures he'll be showing Mar 8, 2007
The retrospective aims to highlight the "extraordinary invention and vision" of the artist "who has radicalized" and extended the definition of sculpture," MoMA said in a statement.Serra, 67, was born in San Francisco, studied literature at the University of California Santa Barbara and art at Yale University and in Europe.Serra said he was influenced by artists as varied as the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez, modernist sculptor Alberto Giacometti and downtown New York writers, musicians and... (North County Times)
Heinz Berggruen, 93; art dealer owned renowned collection of 20th century works Mar 2, 2007
In addition, there are more than 20 works by Henri Matisse and sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Picasso, who became a close friend, "was the most fascinating man I had the chance to meet in my life," Berggruen told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004. (Los Angeles Times)
Heinz Berggruen, at 93; was collector of Picasso and Klee Feb 28, 2007
In addition, there are more than 20 works by Henri Matisse and sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Mr. Berggruen donated those works in 1996 as a gesture of reconciliation with Germany. (Boston Globe)
Heinz Berggruen, Picasso collector and friend, dies Feb 27, 2007
Klee is represented with more than 60 works and there are more than 20 by Henri Matisse plus sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Berggruen donated those works in 1996 as a gesture of reconciliation with the German people. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
COMPLEX DEAL BIG Jan 22, 2007
January 22, 2007 -- 'SUCCESS IS the fortitude to make failure the yardstick of achievement, and the sanity to dis cern that the greatness of art is its unimportance," wrote Alberto Giacometti. THE CELEBRATED Andy Warhol com plex, which sits on a hill out in Mon tauk at the end of Long Island, has been on the market for 40 million. Last week Mickey Drexler, who made millions out of the Gap and J. Crew, took it for a mere 28 million. It boasts a number of buildings, but is said to be rather... (New York Post -- Gossip)
French Art Dealers Seek to Lure Collectors Pinault, Arnault at Fiac Fair Oct 25, 2006
The works on display run from Alberto Giacometti to Chen Zhen. There's art in the Tuilleries gardens and the Louvre's Cour Carree houses 71 exhibitors of designers Ron Arad and Jean Prouve as well as works by Carl Andre and young artists. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
TODAY'S PICTURESAmazing sculptures. Oct 5, 2006
PARISSwiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti at the Maeght Gallery, 1961. Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos. (Slate)
Giacometti: sculptor of the soul Aug 12, 2006
It was when he met one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century, the Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti. It was just two years before the artist's death; he was "as austere, as gaunt and as ragged as his work", Capon recalls. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hitler's Favorite Sculptor, Arno Breker, Stirs Debate, Antipathy in Show Jul 28, 2006
Before the Nazis came to power, Breker lived in Paris from 1927 to 1932 and associated with contemporaries such as Alberto Giacometti, Paul Belmondo, Alexander Calder, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau, with whom he remained friends for 30 years. Country Estate. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Events calendar Jul 8, 2006
Plaster casts by Alberto Giacometti. From May 19 until July 30, the Kunsthaus in Zurich presents original plaster casts by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Art auction: bid for Royal Academy plinth Jun 27, 2006
Alberto Giacometti famously made the plinth a sculptural element in its own right. His emaciated matchstick figures, already so ephemeral, seemed to shrink ever more unreachably into the distance when compared with the solid blocks upon which they were set. (TimesOnline)
Getting crafty: Artists sell wares at Bruce Museum May 22, 2006
"I loved the texture of sculptor Alberto Giacometti.". Jump to page: 1. (Greenwich Time)
Portrait of the artist as reformed con man May 7, 2006
Myatt also sold drawings as the work of Alberto Giacometti and Picasso. Drewe had stolen original letters by Picasso from museum archives and Myatt added sketches and doodles on them. (Toronto Star -- World)
Hayward takes an undercover look at surrealism Feb 25, 2006
The new show, Undercover Surrealism, which opens on 11 May, is likely to prove just as popular by juxtaposing works by Salvador Dali, Joan Mir;, Alberto Giacometti and Andr; Masson with African tribal masks, 1930s Hollywood films and close-up photographs of toes. But it is the focus on Bataille, the self-styled "dissident" of surrealism who fell out with the movement's founder, Andr; Breton, which will provoke most discussion. (The Independent, UK)
The fine art of investing is about money, not taste Jan 29, 2006
In the 1970s, Belgian banker Baron Leon Lambert formed an art club that invested in works by De Kooning and Alberto Giacometti before those artists became popular. In today's heady market, art funds and their investors will have to tread carefully, Citigroup's Hoeveler says. (Business Report, South Africa)
Modern art's big names Jan 27, 2006
"Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters," on view through July 23, includes more than 280 works by Edgar Degas, Paul Gaugin, Auguste Rodin, Edvard Munch, Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. The exhibit, organized by two of the museum's curators, Clifford Ackley and George Shackelford, features a treasure trove of objects, some long part of the MFA collection, some newly acquired, others on view for the first time in nearly 50 years. (CNN -- Travel)
