Giacometti: Pure Presence

Thursday, 15.10.2015 – Sunday, 10.01.2016

Exhibition

Alberto Giacometti, self protraits, 1923-4 and 1921, © The Estate of Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Giacometti, Paris and ADAGP, Paris) 2015
Self Portraits by Alberto Giacometti (c. 1923-4; Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung) & (1921; Kunsthaus Zürich, Legat Bruno Giacometti) © The Estate of Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Giacometti, Paris and ADAGP, Paris) 2015

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death, 'Giacometti: Pure Presence' will comprise over 60 works, including paintings, sculptures and drawings, from the entire range of his career.

The exhibition will include very rare loans from private collections and seldom-seen portraits and focus on Giacometti’s lesser-known double life.

Most famous for his tall, thin, standing or walking figures, Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) is widely known as a leading modernist and surrealist sculptor working alongside Picasso, Miró and Ernst in Paris in the 1920s.

National Portrait Gallery

Location: London