Standing Woman

c. 1947

Alberto Giacometti

Sculptor, Swiss, 1901 - 1966

An elongated, abstracted nude woman stands with her arms pressed to her sides on oversized feet on a blocky plinth in this free-standing bronze sculpture. The woman is unnaturally thin and has shoulder-length hair and low-set breasts. The rough, knubby surface of the bronze is gold colored. In this photograph, the woman is angled to our right, and she is shown against a charcoal-gray background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Enid A. Haupt

  • Dimensions

    overall: 118.1 x 21 x 28.3 cm (46 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.47.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York);[1] Mrs. Enid Annenberg Haupt, New York, by 1973;[2] gift 1977 to NGA.
[1] Memorandum of telephone call between J. Carter Brown and Mrs. Enid A. Haupt, 26 September 1977, in NGA curatorial files. [2] See memo concerning the Haupt collection dated 14 May 1973, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 64, repro.

Bibliography

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 101, repro.

Inscriptions

on top of plinth, rear, proper left corner: 2/6 Alberto Giacometti; on edge of plinth, right rear corner: Susse Fondeur Paris

Markings

FM: Susse

Wikidata ID

Q63854303

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