- Artist
- Alberto Giacometti 1901–1966
- Original title
- Buste d'Annette IV
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 578 × 236 × 218 mm, 13 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
- Reference
- T00778
Catalogue entry
T00778 Annette IV 1962
Inscribed 'Alberto Giacometti | 0/6' and 'Susse Fondeur Paris' on r. side, low down
Bronze, 23 x 9 1/4 x 9 (58.3 x 23.5 x 23)
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) with the aid of the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
Exh: 20th Century Portraits, National Portrait Gallery Exhibition Rooms, London, June-September 1978 (5, repr.)
Lit: Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Painting Drawing (London 1972), p.185, repr. pp.263 and 267
Repr: Raoul-Jean Moulin, Giacometti Sculptures (Paris 1964), pl.24 (dated 1962-3)
This is a portrait of the artist's wife done from life and is one of eight busts of her, numbered from I, II, III to VIII, which he made in 1962. Photographs reproduced in Du, February 1962, pp.4-5 show him working on one of these with Annette in the background. A further bust, numbered IX, was made in 1964.
Annette, whom he met in Geneva during the war and married in 1949, posed to him a great number of times for paintings, drawings and sculptures, including some full-length standing figures.
This cast was made specially for the Tate after the close of the 1965 exhibition, which included the plaster.
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.283, reproduced p.283
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