Walking Man II

1960

Alberto Giacometti

Sculptor, Swiss, 1901 - 1966

An abstracted nude man strides forward on long, spindly legs with his arms by his sides in this free-standing bronze sculpture. The man’s limbs are unnaturally thin and elongated with oversized hands and feet. The surface of the sculpture and the narrow, rectangular base is bumpy and rough. His body is angled to our right against a light gray background in this photograph.
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East Building Upper Level, Bridge
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East Building Upper Level, Bridge

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Enid A. Haupt

  • Dimensions

    overall: 188.5 × 27.9 × 110.7 cm (74 3/16 × 11 × 43 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.47.7

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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. 63, repro.

1993

  • Picasso and the Age of Iron, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth, 1993, not in cat. (shown only in Fort Worth).

Bibliography

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 101, repro.

Inscriptions

on top of plinth, proper left side: Alberto Giacometti 1/6; on top of plinth, tear: Susse Fondeur Paris

Markings

FM: Susse

Wikidata ID

Q63854304

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