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The Walking Man I is a bronze sculpture created by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti in 1960. The artwork portrays a life-sized, emaciated male figure in mid-stride, characterized by its heavily textured surface and fragmented proportions. Giacometti refined this specific posture through earlier studi...
*Man Pointing* (French: *L'Homme au doigt*) is a 1947 bronze sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. The roughly six-foot-tall work depicts a dramatically elongated, emaciated male figure isolated on a base, capturing the existentialist post-war aesthetic for which Giacometti is known. It is r...
The Palace at 4 a.m. is a 1932 sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, currently held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Constructed from wood, glass, wire, and string, the piece resembles a fragile, skeletal architectural model or cage. It is a quintessential example o...
Woman of Venice II is a bronze sculpture created by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti in 1956. It belongs to a series of standing female figures that Giacometti developed for the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Characterized by its elongated proportions and heavily textured, rough surface,...
