The Forest

1950

Alberto Giacometti

Sculptor, Swiss, 1901 - 1966

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    painted bronze

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Enid A. Haupt

  • Dimensions

    overall: 55.8 x 61.1 x 48.9 cm (21 15/16 x 24 1/16 x 19 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.47.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York);[1] Mrs. Enid Annenberg Haupt, New York, by 1973;[2] gift 1977 to NGA.
[1] Memorandum of telephone call between J. Carter Brown and Mrs. Enid A. Haupt, 26 September 1977, in NGA curatorial files. [2] See memo concerning the Haupt collection dated 14 May 1973, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 66, repro.

2001

  • Alberto Giacometti, Kunsthaus Zürich; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001-2002, no. 106, repro.

Bibliography

1989

  • Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: 70-71, repro. 71.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 100, repro.

Inscriptions

on base, right front: A. Giacometti 6/6; on base, back left: Alexis Rudier / Fondeur.Paris

Markings

FM: Alexis Rudier

Wikidata ID

Q63854301

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