Of the sculptures from the period when Giacometti was training under Bourdelle between 1922 and 1925, only a few heads made in the Val Bregaglia survive, while his Parisian productions have been lost save for this self-portrait.

Giacometti probably swapped it with his fellow artist Ernst Stocker (1896–1983); a still life by Stocker with the sculpture as its principal subject still exists (see GS 183).

Material

Plaster

Dimensions

41 x 21 x 28 cm

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1993

Object number

GS 180

Signature

inscr. on plinth, left: Giacometti

Provenance