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Alberto Giacometti
The Leg1958

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Tall, narrow bronze sculpture on a square gray pedestal, with a heavily textured surface, green and yellow patina, and a slight upward curve
Bronze sculpture of a tall, narrow vertical form rising from a small base atop a dark rectangular plinth, with heavily textured, rough surface and dark green-brown patina.
Bronze sculpture of a tall, slender vertical form tapering to a point, with heavily textured, rough surface and green patina, mounted on a dark rectangular pedestal.
Artist or Maker
Alberto Giacometti
Title
The Leg
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1958
Medium
Bronze, cast number 5/6
Dimensions
58 × 11 × 9 in. (147.32 × 27.94 × 22.86 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.32
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected 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.
Copyright
© Alberto Giacometti Estate/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris

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