- Artist
- Alberto Giacometti 1901–1966
- Original title
- Buste de Diego
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 565 × 320 × 145 mm, 8.8 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
- Reference
- T00774
Catalogue entry
T00774 Buste de Diego (Bust of Diego) 1955
Inscribed '0/6 | Alberto Giacometti' b.l. and 'Susse Fondeur Paris' on back, low down
Bronze, 23 x 10 x 8 1/2 (58.5 x 25 x 22)
IPurchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) with the aid of the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
Exh: Bodybox, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, December 1974-January 1975 (works not numbered, repr.)
Repr: Palma Bucarelli, Giacometti (Rome 1962), pl.56 as 'Diego, large bust' 1954-5; Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Painting Drawing (London 1972), p.202 as 'Bust of Diego II' 1955
A bust of Diego Giacometti, who says that it was begun from life and then reworked from memory. It is one of a series of portrait busts of him with a narrow head and high peaked profile executed between 1952 and 1958.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.281, reproduced p.281
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