Giacommetti spent almost all of the last four decades of his life in the studio that he called 'a hole'. 14 December 2010 • 9:56am Art historian Michael Peppiatt has recently published 'In ...

The Alberto Giacometti sculptures "The Chariot" (left), ... When he wasn't working in a cramped studio, he was drinking, and talking philosophy with Jean-Paul Sartre, ...

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 ...

He moves into a flat in the Alésia neighbourhood, which turned out to be a stone’s throw from the studio where Giacometti spent most of his working life (1927-66).

In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti ... While the book contains numerous evocative photographs of Giacometti’s startling studio-cum-living ...

F or admirers of the work of Alberto Giacometti (1901–66), the Swiss sculptor best known for his figures of standing women and walking men so slender as to resemble lines drawn in space rather than ...

Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds. The Swiss artist (1901-1966) with the Italian name lived in Paris for most of his adulthood, and ...

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

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 ...