- Artist
- Alberto Giacometti 1901–1966
- Original title
- Femme, épaule cassée
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 651 × 121 × 200 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
- Reference
- T00777
Catalogue entry
T00777 Femme debout (Standing Woman) c.1958-9
Inscribed 'Alberto Giacometti | 2/2' l. side of base, 'Susse Fondr | Paris' on back on base
Bronze, 25 5/8 x 44 x 7 7/8 (65 x 12 x 20)
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) with the aid of the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
Exh: Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Paintings Drawings 1913-65, Tate Gallery, July-August 1965 (79) as 'Standing Woman' c.1958-9; Giacometti-Udstillingen, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, September-October 1965 (74)
See the note on T00775. The cast marked '4' is now in the Milton D. Ratner Family Collection in the USA and is known as 'Woman with a Broken Shoulder'.
Another cast of this work, with a deeper and more massive base, but otherwise identical, was shown in the Giacometti exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1965 (63, repr. in colour) as 'Woman, Shoulder Broken' 1958-9, collection Dr and Mrs Leo Chalfen.
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.282, reproduced p.282
Explore
- abstraction(8,615)
-
- from recognisable sources(3,634)
-
- figure(2,270)
- actions: postures and motions(9,111)
-
- standing(3,106)
- woman(9,110)
- female(1,681)