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Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966)
Head-Skull
- Date:
- 1933-34
- Medium:
- Plaster
- Dimensions:
- 7 5/16 x 7 7/8 x 8 7/8" (18.5 x 20 x 22.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Fractional and promised gift of Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
- MoMA Number:
- 237.2005
- Copyright:
- © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
2006
Head-Skull marks a moment just prior to Giacometti’s decision toreturn to working from the model, a move
that precipitated his break with the Surrealist leader André Breton. Animated by its sharp faceting and
steep planes, this approximately life-size, skull-like head testifies to the artist’s ongoing preoccupation
with the inextricable relationships between life and death, and transient matter and fixed crystalline form.
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