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Alberto Giacometti
Head - Skull1934, cast later

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Abstract bronze or cast-metal sculpture with sharply faceted planes suggesting a geometric head or mask, with a dome-shaped protrusion and deep triangular recess
Bronze sculpture of an abstracted head form composed of flat angular faceted planes, with a smooth hemispherical protrusion suggesting an eye and a deep angular recess suggesting a mouth, dark patinated surface with lighter burnished edges.
Bronze sculpture of a highly abstracted head, rendered in angular geometric planes with a dark patinated surface, featuring a spherical eye socket and rectangular mouth slit.
Artist or Maker
Alberto Giacometti
Switzerland, 1901-1966
Title
Head - Skull
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1934, cast later
Medium
Bronze, cast number 5/6
Dimensions
8 × 9 × 8 in. (20.32 × 22.86 × 20.32 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.27
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.
Copyright
© Alberto Giacometti Estate/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris