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1964 Giacometti "Annette" original custom #1651979

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1964 Giacometti  Annette  original custom #1651979
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Giacometti<p>Titled ''Annette' <p>Total Framed Size Approximately: 23" x 20", 4" gold leaf wood molding with a linen matting and wood fillet. <p>Paper: Authentic Vlin de Arches <p>Medium: Limited Edition Lithograph<p>The Condition is Remarkably clean, no tears, no foxing; scarce in this condition. <p>The Verso of the lithograph is clean. <p>Printed and Published: Paris. Date: 1964, Edition, First Edition. <p>Publisher: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution<p>From Prints from the Mourlot Press Originally sponsored by the French Embassy and circulated by the Traveling Exhibition Service.<p>Alberto Giacometti was born on 10th October 1901 in Borgonovo in Val Bregaglia to Giovanni, a neo-impressionist painter, and Annetta Stampa. He had a happy childhood. His father introduced him to working in the atelier, his godfather (the painter Cuno Amiet) taught him the latest styles and techniques, and the other members of his family assisted with his artistic development by sitting for him as models. In 1916, during high school, he displayed total mastery of impressionist language in a portrait of his mother modelled with plastilina. He left high school and moved to Geneva to attend the School of Fine Arts. Following a trip to Venice and Rome in 1920, during which he developed a passion for the work of Tintoretto and Giotto, he resolved to recover the innocent gaze of man's origins through primitive art and anthropology. In 1922 he moved to Paris to attend the courses ...
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<tr><td>Title:1964 Giacometti "Annette" original custom</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Chicago, IL</td></tr>
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