Three Men Walking II

Contemporary Art

1948/49

Alberto Giacometti
Swiss, 1901–1966

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Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title: Three Men Walking 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.: 1948–1949
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 5 of 6
Inscriptions: Signed and numbered on edge of top base: A. GIACOMETTI 5/6 On rear of pedestal base, lower right, there is a foundry mark: Alexis Rudier Foundeur Paris
Dimensions: 75 × 33.1 × 31.8 cm (29 1/2 × 13 × 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1951.256
Copyright: © 2018 Succession Giacometti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Kunsthalle Basel, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, exh. cat. (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1950), 22, cat. 107, 29. (ill.).
Pierre Matisse Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: November 1950, exh. cat. (New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1950), 4 (ill.), 32.
A.D.B. Sylvester, “Festival Sculpture,” Studio, 142 no. 702, Sept. 1951, 72 (ill).
Valerie Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 138 (ill.).

Kunsthalle Basel, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, May 6–June 11, 1950, cat. 107, as Trois figures II, 1949.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Alberto Giacometti: Nov. 1950, no cat. no.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Sculpture and Paintings by Giacometti, Nov. 4–Dec. 1, 1953, no cat.
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, Sept. 15–Nov. 13, 1988, cat. 42; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dec. 15, 1988–Feb. 5, 1989.

Galerie Maeght, Paris [Art Institute of Chicago Board Minutes, Jan. 2, 1952; copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

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