Members Preview Lecture “Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure”
Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti Working on the Plaster of the “Walking Man,” c. 1959, silver print on paper, Archives, Fondation Giacometti. © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zurich
Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man I, c. 1960, bronze, Fondation Giacometti. © Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2022
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Members Preview Curatorial Lecture | Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure
MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure.
Ann Dumas, consulting curator for European art, surveys this exhibition of masterpieces by Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Learn about his creative process and how his sculptures of the human figure became associated with existentialism.
Plan Your Visit The lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building, and the exhibition is on the upper level. The nearest Museum entries are through the Beck Building and Kinder Building.
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Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Junior Woman’s Club; Sharon G. Dies; Sterling-Turner Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.
“Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure” is co-organized by the Fondation Giacometti in Paris and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from:
Generous support provided by:
Jerold B. Katz Foundation
M. D. Anderson Foundation
Sara Dodd and Will Denton
Carol and Mike Linn
Dorothy Bridgwater Black Fund
Susanne and William E. Pritchard III
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