Click here for the full list of dates and locations. The work will be on view in Hong Kong from 30 January–2 February and New York from 12–14 February. The present cast remained with Broder’s heirs until acquired by the present owner, and in 1983 Heinz Berggruen donated the plaster original to the Centre Georges Pompidou. In 1953 Giacometti agreed to cast three bronzes from the plaster for Broder. The plaster model was hung as part of a larger decorative scheme produced in collaboration with Alberto’s brother Diego for Broder’s premises at 70 rue de l’Université, and remained in situ when the dealer Heinz Berggruen took the gallery space over shortly afterwards. Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau was originally commissioned in 1948 by Louis Broder, a Swiss publisher based in Paris who specialised in producing printed editions of work by artists including Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. I realised that I could never just create a motionless woman and a walking man’ ( Giacometti - la collection de Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1999).
Giacometti said of the figures in the work: ‘.each of them has the air of going their own way, all alone in a direction unknown to the others.
The present work interweaves themes of isolation, incommunicability, and the strangeness of relationships between men and women. 48-50).ĪLBERTO GIACOMETTI, LUSTRE AVEC FEMME, HOMME ET OISEAU. Giacometti, quoted in Pierre Schneider, 'Ma longue marche par Alberto Giacometti', in L'Express, Paris, 8th June 1961, pp. They unceasingly form and reform living compositions in unbelievable complexity’ (A. Every second the people stream together and go apart, they approach each other to get closer to one another. In the street people astound and interest me more than any sculpture or painting. They crossed paths, passed by, without seeing each other, without looking. a bit like ants, each one going about his own business, alone ignored by the others. mindless machines, like men in the street who come and go. Referring to the new perception of people and the space surrounding them in the post-war years, Giacometti recounted that, upon leaving a cinema in 1945, he suddenly felt that ‘people seemed like a completely foreign species, mechanical. The present sculpture hints at an urban context, with the platform on which the figures are positioned evocative of a city square, framed by the four palms at each extremity. Category 21st Century and Contemporary French Mid. pure, sober French Plaster Chandelier / Pendant in the style of Giacometti for Jean-Michel Frank circa 1930. 2 Large French Modern Neoclassical Plaster Chandeliers in style of Serge Roche. In the late 1940s, Giacometti was fascinated by spatial relationships and the concept of movement within a single work. French Modern Neoclassical Plaster Chandelier, Jean Michel Frank and Giacometti. ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, DETAIL OF LUSTRE AVEC FEMME, HOMME ET OISEAU.
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