Walking Man II

1960

Alberto Giacometti
Swiss, 1901–1966

Status: On View, Gallery 398
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title: Walking Man II
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1960
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 2 of 6
Dimensions: 188 × 28 × 111.8 cm (74 × 11 × 44 in.)
Credit Line: Grant J. Pick Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1965.358
Copyright: © 2018 Succession Giacometti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti (Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1962), 291, as Homme qui marche II.
Hanover Gallery, Sculpture, exh. cat. (London: Hanover Gallery, 1962), cover (ill.), n.p., cat. 23, as Homme qui marche 2.
A. James Speyer, Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1967), n.p., as Walking Man.
Valerie Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 218.

London, Hanover Gallery, Sculpture, July 3–Sept. 1, 1962, cat. 23, as Homme qui marche 2.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, June 23–Aug. 27, 1967, no cat. no., as Walking Man.

Galerie Maeght, Paris [this and the following, curatorial documentation; copy in curatorial file]. Hanover Gallery, London, 1963. Pace Gallery, New York, 1964. Sold through B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.

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