This sheet was inserted into the sketchpad of youthful drawings (GS 216). It too contains overdrawn heads of writers and artists, their precision a curious contrast with the child-like script, misspelt names and other typically youthful features: murder ballads, caricatures of figures in tail coats and uniforms, including Kaiser Wilhelm II being conveyed Heavenwards by little devils – clearly this is the First World War and the sentiment is resolutely anti-German. Occasionally the pad fell into the hands of his younger siblings, as the child’s scribblings reveal.

Material

Pencil on transparent paper

Dimensions

32.5 x 26.5 cm

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Donated by Bruno and Odette Giacometti, 2000

Object number

GS 239.verso

Signature

not inscribed

Further information

Einzelblatt; entnommen aus GS 216, nach fol. 58

Provenance