Alberto Giacometti
The Cage (first version)1950

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Alberto Giacometti
Title: The Cage (first version)
Place Made: Switzerland
Date Made: 1950
Medium: Bronze, cast number 8/8
Dimensions: 35 7/8 × 14 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (91.12 × 36.51 × 33.97 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.28
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
Provenance: Madame Annette Giacometti, Paris; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel, sold 2002 to]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles, partial, fractional and promised gift 2005 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie. Acknowledgments, or Every Label Tells a Story. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues: LACMA, 2017.