Alberto Giacometti
Atelier aux deux seaux [Studio with Two Buckets]
About this artwork
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title:Atelier aux deux seaux [Studio with Two Buckets]
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accession number:GMA 795
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materials:Etching on paper (29/50)
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date created:1955
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measurements:26.40 x 21.30 cm (paper 50.20 x 38.30 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1962
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copyright:© The Estate of Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Annette et Alberto Giacometti, Paris and ADAGP, Paris), licensed in the UK by ACS and DACS, London 2018.
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss-born sculptor Giacometti studied art in Geneva, moving to Paris in 1922 where he experimented with Cubism and became interested in primitive sculpture. He worked with the surrealist group until the mid-1930s, producing strange objects suggestive of cruelty, sex and dreams. After that time, he broke away dramatically from the Surrealists…