The photographer Eli Lotar was a long-standing acquaintance of Giacometti’s; in his youth he worked for Georges Bataille’s journal ‘Documents’. In 1929, the very year in which Michel Leiris’s first ground-breaking article about Giacometti was published, so too were Lotar’s photographs from abattoirs.

Towards the end of 1963 he was a regular visitor to the studio; the three busts that Giacometti made of him in 1964–65 mark the conclusion of his life’s work (see GS 373 and GS 415).

Material

Bronze

Dimensions

25.8 x 28.3 x 14.9 cm

Creditline

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Donated by Bruno and Odette Giacometti, 2002

Object number

GS 250

Signature

inscr. at bottom of left shoulder: 4/8 / Alberto Giacometti

Further information

Ex. 4/8

Provenance