The Cage (first version)

© Alberto Giacometti Estate/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris
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The Cage (first version)

Switzerland, 1950
Sculpture
Bronze, cast number 8/8
35 7/8 × 14 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (91.12 × 36.51 × 33.97 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.28)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Label

Much of Giacometti’s postwar work was seen as a fitting response to the horrors of World War II....
Much of Giacometti’s postwar work was seen as a fitting response to the horrors of World War II. Here a hollowed-out space contains two figures positioned at a distance from each other—they are together, yet alienated in the enclosure that surrounds them.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Acknowledgments, or Every Label Tells a Story. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues: LACMA, 2017.