Michael Peppiatt's 2010 book provides a fascinating insight into Giacometti's studio. 1. As a young artist in 1926 Giacometti took a studio on whim at 46 rue Hippolyte. It was a small, dark ...

the mountain village in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland where Alberto Giacometti was born two years before Stein’s arrival in France. He came to Paris himself in 1922. Like Stein, he lived ...

Alberto Giacometti, the sculptor and painter who ... The figures from this period, such as “Walking Man”, are probably Giacometti’s best-known works. They later regained a sense of volume ...

The verification of a Giacometti sculpture once knocked over by a cat was delayed by months leaving viewers of BBC art show ‘Fake or Fortune?’ waiting a year to find out if it was worth £500,000. The ...

There are some situations, proposes Christian Klemm, deputy director at the Kunsthaus Zürich and curator of the museum’s new cabinet exhibition, Alberto Giacometti – The Art of Seeing, in which this ...

Image caption, Walking Man I, Alberto Giacometti, 1960, bronze Alberto Giacometti’s statues use stretched proportions to show tall thin figures, like in Walking Man I (1960). Giacometti stripped ...