Art historian Michael Peppiatt has recently published 'In Giacometti's Studio', a book focussing on the tiny cluttered studio in Paris where Giacommetti spent almost all of the last four decades ...

Can the stark and bare-bone sculptures of Alberto Giacometti reveal truths about our own times? Tony Dokoupil says, yes, they can: He pushed, prodded and gouged his masterpieces into existence ...

Alberto Giacometti in his Parisian studio finishing a sculpture in 1950. Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images During one three-year period of creative output, Alberto Giacometti was ...

Though it glosses over his misogyny, Michael Peppiatt’s biography reflects Giacometti’s uncanny ability to capture the energy of ancient art in a modern format.

How almost meeting Alberto Giacometti the week he died inspired a new biography A 60-year “obsession” began when Michael Peppiatt set out for Paris with a letter of introduction from Francis Bacon ...

Alberto Giacometti’s ’Large Thin Head’ failed to sell Tuesday night at Sotheby’s as collectors were spooked by the $70 million asking price.© Sotheby’s/© Succession Alberto Giacometti ...

On “Giacometti” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Alberto Giacometti: A Biography by Catherine Grenier.

Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds. Here's a chance to see the Swiss artist's explorations of the human form.

Among the most significant experiences of Ms. Chase-Riboud’s artistic life occurred after the 23-year-old artist left New Haven and went to Paris — that is to say, when she visited Alberto Giacometti ...

Photo by Andy Coughlan "Diego Seated in the Studio" by Alberto Giacometti, on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through Feb, 12. Photo by Andy Coughlan ...