"Giacometti" shows works by Swiss Modernist sculptor, painter and draftsman Alberto Giacometti (1901-66). From Wordnik.com. [Time Off in Europe] Reference
'Giacometti's ELISABETTA,' I find him writing, 'fetched the house vastly. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
'Giacometti's Code' - The New York Review of Books. From Wordnik.com. ['Giacometti's Code'] Reference
Giacometti, Man Ray, and Richter are among the ghastly guest stars. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Top 10 Shows to See in Paris] Reference
It's an animation of one of my favorite artists, Alberto Giacometti. From Wordnik.com. [July 2006] Reference
Two Paris galleries were given works by Giacometti, Cézanne and Klee. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
This is not like working with a Giacometti, where one has a sense of the patina. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: The Blue Flower: How Jeff Koons's "Balloon" Sculpture Could Make History, Again, at Christie's] Reference
Peggy Guggenheim's Palazzo Venier dei Leoni: a plaster cast of a sculpture by Giacometti. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Wrong with Loving Canada?] Reference
Is this representative of the art market or just about Picasso, Giacometti and a few others?. From Wordnik.com. [Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Picasso Sets Auction House Record at $106.5 million] Reference
They are clearly derivative of Bacon, Georg Baselitz, de Kooning, the drawings of Giacometti. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder in Kenya] Reference
The two Giacometti sculptures were on display in the hallway of the first floor, these people said. From Wordnik.com. [Merkin Art to Be Sold as Hedge in Madoff Case] Reference
Yes, well, of course, needless to say Giacometti and Picasso, were both well-known radical leftists. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2005] Reference
We may never look at Giacometti -- or, for that matter, at Egyptian art -- quite the same way again. From Wordnik.com. [Steinberg's Witty Lines] Reference
The sale includes more than 10 works by Rothko and two Giacometti sculptures, including "The Glade.". From Wordnik.com. [Merkin Art to Be Sold as Hedge in Madoff Case] Reference
The biography was not necessarily greeted favorably by reviewers who did not know Giacometti personally. From Wordnik.com. ['Giacometti's Code'] Reference
His article is a sober, albeit somewhat laborious, recapitulation of well-known Giacometti data and lore. From Wordnik.com. ['Giacometti's Code'] Reference
The furnishings are oversize sofas, pretty French chairs and round side tables from the Giacometti studio. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Owens: An Aristocratic Paris Address] Reference
They might just have been inspired by Giacometti, but in these as in all her other work she is a true original. From Wordnik.com. [Louise Bourgeois obituary] Reference
Giacometti, born in Switzerland, became one of the leading surrealist sculptors, known for his spindly human forms. From Wordnik.com. [Merkin Art to Be Sold as Hedge in Madoff Case] Reference
Nonetheless, the bold display of the Giacometti proved that high quality consignments had the potential to soar in 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Jentleson: The Top New York Art Auctions of 2010] Reference
Giacometti: "It's just like traveling through the septic system at a leper colony reform school by windowless submarine.". From Wordnik.com. [Oppressed by the label "Republican"?] Reference
Paintings by Balthus, Matisse, Francis Bacon, and Franz Kline share the room with sculptures by Giacometti and Henry Moore. From Wordnik.com. [Does Two Make a Trend? N.Y.U. to Name Library After Sheldon Solow] Reference
On one hand Hawk's work bears evidence of his influences: Praxiteles, Moore, Brancusi, Picasso, Miro, Giacometti, and Calder. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: This Hawk Flies High, But Alights on Terra Firma] Reference
His structures more resemble the ominously metamorphosing sculptures of Miro, Lipchitz, Giacometti, Arp, and other modernists. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Star Qualities] Reference
In February, Commerzbank sold a Giacometti sculpture it had inherited when it took over Dresdner Bank a year earlier for £65m. From Wordnik.com. [Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies] Reference
He had tried to sell Aldwych a small Giacometti, but the older man liked his statues, as he called them, rounded and in marble. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn Maze]
"Cult of the Artist: Giacometti, the Egyptian" shows work by Swiss surrealist sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti (1910-1966). From Wordnik.com. [Time Off Europe Calendar] Reference
The permanent exhibit include 45 works by major twentieth century artists like Miro, Calder, Rodin, Moore and Giacometti, to name a few. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Irene S. Levine: Exploring the Hudson Valley: A visit to Pepsico-Kendall Sculpture Garden in Purchase] Reference
Floors four & five I believe are paintings and sculpture – more traditional modern works like Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Giacometti etc. From Wordnik.com. [#129 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics « 1979 Semi-Finalist…] Reference
Even from well beyond the grave, Picasso did not like anyone else holding a sales record which had recently gone to a Giacometti head in London. From Wordnik.com. [Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Picasso Sets Auction House Record at $106.5 million] Reference
Sotheby's, meanwhile, had trouble stamping out rumors that its Giacometti cat sculpture, "Le Chat," had been shopped privately before its auction. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Auction Lessons] Reference
Like practically every other great 20th-century artist, Giacometti made his way through a couple of dominant styles before finding his way to originality. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture For The Soul] Reference
Sotheby's Giacometti bronze The sales confirmed the troubled state of the art market, which is finally feeling the full brunt of the global economic crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Slim Sales for the London Auctions] Reference
The all-white interiors made a museum-like setting for the Bunshafts 'extensive collection of modern art, which included works by Léger, Miro and Giacometti. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 Best Houses in the Hamptons] Reference
"Giacometti, Balthus, Skira -- The Labyrinthe Years (1944-1946)" presents art and documents of "Labyrinthe," a publication published at the end of World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Time Off] Reference
Inside, at every turn I am surprised by the installations of Picasso, DeKooning, Giacometti, Matta and Rothko ... in one of the most elegant exhibitions I have ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Pink Socks & Patent Leather Shoes -- a Madison Avenue Art Walk] Reference
Giacometti (1906-1969) came to Paris from Switzerland in the mid-1920s and moved into a small studio in which, except for sojourns home, he would work for the rest of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture For The Soul] Reference
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