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Alberto Giacometti
Bust of Diego1952

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Bronze bust sculpture with rough, heavily textured surface, extremely elongated head on a thin neck rising from wide, blocky shoulders, dark patina with silvery highlights
Bronze bust sculpture in profile view, elongated head atop a thin neck rising from a broad, roughly textured base, with deeply worked surface showing expressive, uneven modeling throughout.
Bronze bust in profile view, elongated head atop a thin neck rising from a broad, rough-hewn base, with deeply textured, heavily worked surface showing expressive ridges and gouges throughout.
Bronze bust with an elongated, narrow head atop a thin neck rising from a broad, rough-textured base; heavily worked surface with jagged, uneven modeling throughout.
Bronze sculpture of an elongated human head and neck on a blocky base, with deeply textured, roughly worked surface in dark patina.
Artist or Maker
Alberto Giacometti
Switzerland, 1901-1966
Title
Bust of Diego
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1952
Medium
Bronze, unique
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 12 x 5 in. (39.37 x 30.48 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.29
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
Collection Aimé Maeght, Paris; Succession Maeght, Paris; Private Collection, Paris; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel, sold 1994 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.