‘Personnages’ is a one-off, and one of the few bronzes from the pre-war period. Here Giacometti breaks the group of figures down into individual elemental bodies linked together by rods and tubes like parts in a machine. The work was inspired by the Cubist sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens and also probably by the paintings of Fernand Léger.

Material

Bronze

Dimensions

26 x 20 x 15 cm

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1965

Object number

GS 006

Signature

not inscribed

Provenance

• Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), frühestens ab 1965, Leihgabe
• Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (Sammlung), Zürich, frühestens ab 1965, Übernahme
• Alberto Giacometti-Syndikat, 1963, Kauf
• Kunsthandel, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1963, Kauf
• Sammlung G. David Thompson, 1953
• Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
• Alberto Giacometti