In the Studio
Free- Artist
- Alberto Giacometti 1901–1966
- Original title
- Homme assis
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 800 × 540 mm
frame: 859 × 597 × 75 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1949
- Reference
- N05909
Catalogue entry
N05909 Homme assis (Seated Man) 1949
Inscribed 'Alberto Giacometti' b.r. and 'Alberto Giacometti 1949' on back of canvas
Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 21 1/4 (80 x 54)
Purchased from the artist (Benson Fund) 1949
Exh: Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Arts Council Gallery, London, June-July 1955 (40)
Lit: Francis Hoyland, 'Giacometti's "Seated Man" ' in The Listener, LXXI, 1964, pp.513-15, repr. p.513
Repr: Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Painting (London 1959), pl.151; John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery (London 1966), p.176 in colour
The sitter is the artist's brother Diego. Born in 1902, Diego became an artisan and shared Alberto Giacometti's life and work from 1925 onwards as his assistant, model and closest friend. He posed for his brother a great number of times for paintings, sculptures and drawings. There are several other paintings very similar in composition to this work.
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, pp.279-80, reproduced p.279
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