The MOCA Makeover Nov 20, 2009
For example, the first room in the Grand Avenue space houses vastly different works by three abstract artists from the 1950s and 60s, including geometric paintings by American Mark Rothko and two surreal, elongated female bronze figures by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, dated 1960. Other parts of the exhibit showcases more surprising groupings. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Giacometti and his Geneva crisis Nov 12, 2009
Image caption: Alberto Giacometti working on one of his famous walking man sculptures (Ernst Scheidegger) ... The career of Alberto Giacometti, the leading Swiss artist of the 20th century, was punctuated by creative crises - not least during his time in Geneva ... Today, Alberto Giacometti is Switzerland's most important artist internationally. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Diego Giacometti Artist-Designer Nov 9, 2009
Brother of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Diego (1902-1985) worked for and with Alberto, only fully revealing his own talent after his brother's death in 1966. In 1925, Diego Giacometti went to Paris to join his brother Alberto who was beginning to make something of a name for himself on the local art scene. (Suite101.com)
A home for aristocratic artists Nov 9, 2009
These included Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer, and his wife Martine Franck, Alberto Giacometti, the actor Richard Gere, the singer Bono, the Dalai Lama, and classical musicians such as Riccardo Muti and Zubin Mehta. One special guest was rock superstar David Bowie, who interviewed Balthus on a couple of occasions for specialist art reviews in Britain: Bowie was not only a friend of Balthus but a connoisseur of his work too. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Record prices mark art sale boom Nov 6, 2009
Top of the lots was a bronze sculpture by Italian artist Alberto Giacometti which fetched more than $19m (11. 4), soaring above a $12m (7. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A Body of Work Oct 26, 2009
" But sometimes beauty isn't the issue. "In African art, very often the purpose of the work is to create a religious figure, and it's to express a certain kind of power symbolically," said Richard Lacayo. Consider the scrawny figures - female and male - painted by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele around World War I. "He's making the body express the anxieties and tensions of his own time," Lacayo said. The same for sculptor Alberto Giacometti, metaphorically reacting to the horrors and... (CBS News -- Entertainment)
James Lord, 86; authored biographies, memoirs Aug 30, 2009
NEW YORK - James Lord, an intimate of Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti whose biographies and memoirs provide a vivid picture of the artistic milieu of Montparnasse after World War II, died Sunday at his home in Paris ... Mr. Lord returned to the topic of Giacometti with Alberto Giacometti: Drawings (1971), for which he wrote an introductory essay. (Boston Globe)
German Police Confiscate Fake Giacomettis Aug 20, 2009
(AP) German police have confiscated hundreds of bronze and plaster statues alleged to be the works of Alberto Giacometti and arrested an art dealer and two others on suspicion of selling the fakes across the globe. Prosecutors in Stuttgart said Wednesday a 59-year-old man in Frankfurt, as well as a 61-year-old art dealer and his wife have been held in detention since their arrest a week ago. (CBS News -- World)
Madoff 'feeder' Merkin parts with art trove Jul 1, 2009
Merkin has denied any wrongdoing, but has agreed to sell his collection of paintings by the abstract expressionist and sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who is also suing Merkin, says an anonymous buyer is acquiring the art trove. (USA Today -- Money)
Stanley William Hayter : From Surrealism to Abstraction Jun 4, 2009
Select prints by some of the bestknown artists to work at Hayter's print shop, either in Paris or in New YorkMax Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Andr Masson, Joan Mir, and Jackson Pollock are installed throughout the exhibition. Giacometti's engraving Hands Holding the Void (1934) relates to his bronze sculpture The Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void) (1935), on view in the Gallery's collection on the upper level of the East Building. (AbsoluteArts.com)
David Hannah, William Tucker: pairing of ideas May 31, 2009
Tucker has renovated the tradition of modeling sculpture in plaster for casting in bronze, a lineage deliberately stymied and disfigured by Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and Willem de Kooning. Tucker has digested this rambunctious history. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Hergé museum: Totally Tintin May 29, 2009
A sign high on a wall quotes Balthus, a Polish-French modern artist, recalling a happy evening with a sculptor friend, Alberto Giacometti, marvelling at the quality and depth of Herg; s work. Yet the work that the two artists were admiring was a stack of Tintin albums. (The Economist)
Picasso fetches $14.6m at Christie's May 10, 2009
The auction bested the previous night's results at its uptown rival, Sotheby's, which failed to find buyers for its top two lots, by Picasso and Alberto Giacometti. That auction made $61. (Business Report, South Africa)
Market fails test as Sotheby's fails to sell top two lots May 10, 2009
The top two lots, by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti, failed to sell. The $61. (Business Report, South Africa)
Picasso, Giacometti works fetch $7.7M each in NYC May 7, 2009
NEW YORK - Pieces by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti sold Wednesday for more than $7 million each at an auction of impressionist and modern art, showing that collectors still are willing to spend despite the global recession, the Christie's auction house said. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
No buyer for Pablo Picasso painting at NYC auction May 6, 2009
NEW YORK - A Pablo Picasso painting of his young daughter and an Alberto Giacometti sculpture of a cat, each estimated to sell for $16 million to $24 million, failed to find buyers at auction Tuesday as the art world struggles with the global financial crisis. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
NYC spring art auctions will be smaller Apr 28, 2009
Both houses are offering exceptional works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian and David Hockney, but there are fewer star quality works because "sellers are reluctant to sell to this market because they don't think they will get the best price," Nash said. Sotheby's president, Bill Ruprecht, acknowledged that the shortage of works coming to market was affecting the business. (AZCentral -- Business)
Fraenkel puts Hopper's vision in perspective Mar 28, 2009
Lee Friedlander's picture "New York City" (1963), of people and reflections shuffling through revolving doors, like the striding man in Robert Frank's "Los Angeles" (1955-56), bring Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) to mind as readily as Hopper. Stephen Shore's "2nd Street, Ashland, Wisconsin" (1973) presents a ruddy slice of the American scene, as some of Hopper's urban landscapes do. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Egyptian impact on Giacometti displayed Mar 20, 2009
ZURICH, Switzerland He is called "the Egyptian," but Alberto Giacometti never was in Egypt. A Zurich show just gives him that name to focus on the intense fascination ancient Egyptian art exerted over the Swiss sculptor. (Yahoo News)
Gary Kelley displays new work from trip to France Feb 22, 2009
They also visited the Maeght Foundation, a museum of contemporary and modern art, including Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder and Joan Miro. Also on the itinerary was Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Cote a Azur and Jean Cocteau s murals at Chapel of St. Peter. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
