Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background ; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter.

His father, Giovanni Giacometti, was a painter.

It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading surrealist sculptors.

Subjects were frequently revisited: one of his favorite models was his younger brother Diego Giacometti.

A third brother, Bruno Giacometti, was a noted architect.

In 1958 Giacometti was asked to create a monumental sculpture for the Chase Manhattan Bank building in New York, which was beginning construction.

The commission was never completed, however, because Giacometti was unsatisfied by the relationship between the sculpture and the site, and abandoned the project.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

Throughout the 1960s, Miró was a featured artist in many salon shows assembled by the Maeght Foundation that also included works by Marc Chagall, Giacometti, Brach, Cesar, Ubac, and Tal-Coat.

* On 3 February 2010, the sculpture L ' Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti was sold in London for £ 65 million ( US $ 103. 7 million ), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.

While in Paris he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, ( 1948 – 1952 ) " Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s was a Mecca for American and European artists ... Pollack said the tutelage of the Parisian artists he came in contact with ( Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Francis Poulenc, Jacques Lipchitz, and Constantin Brancusi ) made him realize ' my responsibility to civilization ' Pollack spent 14 years in Paris, eight of them living directly next door to the famed sculptor Constantin Brancusi who became his mentor.

Marc Barbezat's company L ' Arbalète published the first version of The Balcony in June 1956 ; the artist Alberto Giacometti created several lithographs based on the play that appeared on its cover ( including a tall, dignified Irma, the Bishop who was made to resemble Genet, and the General with his whip ).

In the early 1960s he was involved with Swift's ‘ X ’ magazine ( other artists included Bacon, Giacometti and Auerbach ).

Designed by Bruno Giacometti, it opened on July 18, 1939, and was renovated in 2005.

In 1919 he also joined the group Das Neue Leben (" New Life "), that was based in Basel and featured Marcel Janco, Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber, Augusto Giacometti, and others.

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Iché's work is close to surrealism and like the sculptors Alberto Giacometti and Germaine Richier inherits an aesthetic born from the workshop of Antoine Bourdelle.

** Alberto Giacometti ( 1901, Borgonovo, Stampa-1966 ), a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker

It has a wide range of modern art paintings, sculptures and videos dating from World War II up to now, including works by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg and Asger Jorn.

* 1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor ( d. 1966 )

* October 10 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor ( died 1966 )

* August 24 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect ( d. 2012 )

** Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor ( b. 1901 )

* Giovanni Giacometti ( 1868 – 1933 ), a Swiss painter ; the father of Alberto, Diego, and Bruno Giacometti

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* Zaccaria ( Fleiner -) Giacometti ( 1893, Stampa ()-1970, Zürich ), Swiss lawyer

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* Paolo Giacometti ( 1816 – 1882 ), Italian dramatist

The gallery has an extensive collection of British Victorian art, such as Lord Frederic Leighton and Sir Edward John Poynter ; smaller holdings of Dutch, French and Italian painters of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, such as Peter Paul Rubens, Canaletto, Agnolo Bronzino, Domenico Beccafumi and Niccolò dell ' Abbate ; collections of European modernists such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Alberto Giacometti and Giorgio Morandi as well as modern British masters.

device to a poodle, a border collie and a Jack Russell terrier, which betray a certain perhaps unwitting animal attraction to the work of Giacometti.

He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the sitter's gaze.

A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, " he would make your head look like the blade of a knife.

Giacometti said that the final result represented the sensation he felt when he looked at a woman.

Alberto Giacometti by Reginald Gray.

The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti-The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust ( Tudor 1970 ), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print.

Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease ( pericarditis ) and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland.

In 1936 he moved to Tenero-Locarno, in Ticino Canton, Switzerland ; during the following few years the artist often visited Zürich and Basel, where he became a friend of Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, and Fritz Wotruba.

Soon more visual artists became involved, including Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Alberto Giacometti, Valentine Hugo, Méret Oppenheim, Toyen, and later after the second war: Enrico Donati.

A few of the other artists who gathered in Montparnasse were Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ossip Zadkine, Carmelo Gonzalez, Julio Gonzalez, Moise Kisling, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Marios Varvoglis, Marc Chagall, Nina Hamnett, Jean Rhys, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Amedeo Modigliani, Ford Madox Ford, Toño Salazar, Ezra Pound, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Henri Rousseau, Constantin Brâncuşi, Paul Fort, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Federico Cantú, Angel Zarraga, Marevna, Tsuguharu Foujita, Marie Vassilieff, Léon-Paul Fargue, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, André Breton, Alfonso Reyes, Pascin, Salvador Dalí, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran, Reginald Gray, Joan Miró and, in his declining years, Edgar Degas.