Alberto Giacometti art links 

Original works by Alberto Giacometti available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!
Many works online

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 7 works online

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!
"Artists in Depth" page for Alberto Giacometti

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Three Men Walking II, 1949

Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Tall Figure, 1948-49

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Sculpture collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Flash site for a 2001 Alberto Giacometti Exhibition

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice   NEW!

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Woman with Broken Shoulder (Femme, Épaule Cassée)

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Hands Holding the Void

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Figure

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French)  

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Femme Couchee

Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)  
Information about the 2007-2008 exhibition L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
Photograph of Femme Qui Marche by Brassaï

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Femme bras tronqués

Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Several images from the 2002 exhibition: "Alberto Giacometti: The Mature Years"

Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Kunsthaus Zurich
Note the links to Giacometti's works on the lower left of the page: Frühe Werke (Early Works), Surrealistische Werke (Surrealist Works), Reife Werke (Mature Works), Gemälde (Painting), Die Neuen Räume (New Areas)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "G"

Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland
Choose the artist from the drop-down list, and click "START"

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Homme qui marche, 1960
(click on the thumbnail to see a larger image)

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Femme de Venise VI, bronze sculpture, 1956

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Large Seated Woman

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(You need to click the "right" arrow fifteen times)

Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)  
Portrait de Diego ou Tête noire

Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  
Giacometti: Paris sans fin

Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  
Piz de la Margna, 1924

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Tête De Diego Sur Socle (Head of Diego), 1958

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Male Saint and Two Figures (copy after Byzantine mosaic?)

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Click "Index of Artists" for 3 works by Giacometti

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Standing Woman

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Standing Figure - Head en face - Standing Figure

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Femme debout (Woman Standing)

State Museums of Berlin

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Head of Diego, 1956 (keep clicking "Next" to see it)

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Venetian Woman IX, 1956-57 (keep clicking "Next" to see it)

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Tete de Diego

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART)  
Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
2 sculptures online as you scroll down the page

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Boston College Fine Arts Department

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
Tall Figure IV, 1960

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Stehende III

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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	Bing Images: "Alberto Giacometti"

 
 

Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Tête noire (Diego), 1951

Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales

Kilidavid

Museo Virtual del Surrealismo
The Surrealist Table

Philippe Gambette Web Site (in French)  
Photographs from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Standing Woman, bronze

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alberto Giacometti  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Head, stainless steel sculpture, 1957

California Literary Review
2 works online

The London Evening Standard
"The status symbol that commanded a king's ransom", 2010 article by Brian Sewell

The New York Observer
"In Art, Genes Matter: Giacometti at MOMA", article by Hilton Kramer

The New York Observer
"The Lust Exhibition Burnishes Giacometti", article by Hilton Kramer

The New Yorker
"The Thin Man", 2001 article by Peter Schjeldahl

The Village Voice
"Figure One", 2001 article by Jerry Saltz

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Mythic Giacometti search inside A Giacometti Portrait search inside Giacometti: A Biography search inside Looking at Giacometti look inside Alberto Giacometti look inside Giacometti look inside Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures look inside Alberto Giacometti: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings