Later labelled ‘1937’, this work is the most impressive of a number of similar portraits created in 1935. Seemingly the change of direction reawakened Giacometti’s need to interrogate his own features for the first time since 1925. He subsequently engraved a similar self-portrait on the ‘Cube’ (see GS 025 and GS 298).

Material

Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions

49 x 31 cm

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 2002

Object number

GS 246

Signature

inscribed bottom right: Alberto Giacometti / 1937.

Provenance

• ab 2002, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Leihgabe
• ab 2002, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (Sammlung), Zürich, Kauf
• 2002, Peter Uhlmann (*1935, +2020) (Vermittler/-in), Zürich
• o.D. – 2002, Paul Matisse (Galerie), Groton MA
• Verbleib unbekannt
• Alberto Giacometti (*1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa, +1966 Chur) (Künstler/-in)