© Alberto Giacometti Estate/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Trois hommes qui marchent
Artist
Alberto Giacometti
(Schweiz, 1901 - 1966)
Alternate Title
- Three Men Walkin
- Tre män som går
Date1948 - 1949
MediumBrons
Dimensions73 x 42 x 41 cm
ClassificationSculptures
Credit LineBequest 1989 of Gerard Bonnier
Countries
Object NumberMOMSK 148
CollectionsThe Gerard Bonnier Collection
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti's father was a painter, but it was not until his first trip to Paris that Alberto began to work with sculpture. To begin with, during the first half of the Twenties, he was a pupil of Bourdelle, and created his modernistic works in a more or less Cubist idiom. In the Thirties he produced his Surrealist sculptures of objects - at that time he was close to the artist Meret Oppenheim - and during the following decades he developed his typical figurative style, with the tall, thin figures that made him famous.
Group of Three Men is a situation picture. The plinth shows that the market square/field that the three men are walking on is as important as the figures themselves. All three men are walking in different directions, and it is the platform that makes their meeting possible. But in fact they don't seem to have any real contact with each other. It is the special moment when their paths cross that is the artist's subject.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks På bottenplattans tre sidor: "A. Giacometti, 1/6, Alexis Rudier Fondeur paris" Selected exhibition history Ur Gerard Bonniers samling (1968) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Alberto Giacometti (den 10 oktober 2020 - den 30 maj 2021) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Alberto Giacometti (1977) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Alberto Giacometti : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 12 februari - 27 mars 1977Alberto Giacometti : Face to face : [Moderna Museet 10/10 2020-17/1 2021]Ur Gerard Bonniers samling : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : [6.6 - 18.8 1968]Alberto Giacometti : Ansikte mot ansikte : [Moderna Museet 10/10 2020-17/1 2021]
Group of Three Men is a situation picture. The plinth shows that the market square/field that the three men are walking on is as important as the figures themselves. All three men are walking in different directions, and it is the platform that makes their meeting possible. But in fact they don't seem to have any real contact with each other. It is the special moment when their paths cross that is the artist's subject.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks På bottenplattans tre sidor: "A. Giacometti, 1/6, Alexis Rudier Fondeur paris" Selected exhibition history Ur Gerard Bonniers samling (1968) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Alberto Giacometti (den 10 oktober 2020 - den 30 maj 2021) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Alberto Giacometti (1977) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Alberto Giacometti : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 12 februari - 27 mars 1977Alberto Giacometti : Face to face : [Moderna Museet 10/10 2020-17/1 2021]Ur Gerard Bonniers samling : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : [6.6 - 18.8 1968]Alberto Giacometti : Ansikte mot ansikte : [Moderna Museet 10/10 2020-17/1 2021]