Loeb: Regards sur la peinture

Alberto Giacometti

(1950)

A bristling etching in which Giacometti arranges bottles, a bowl, and a small head inside a framed space to translate the nervous energy of looking into spare, scratchy line.

At first glance it reads like a hurried sketch: trembling, overlapping strokes trace a row of bottles, a tipped bowl and an almost ghostly head, all set within a roughly incised rectangular frame that amplifies the surrounding emptiness.

Made in the postwar years, this print applies the existential, attenuated language of Giacometti’s sculpture to drawing and printmaking, showing how terse line can evoke presence, isolation, and the act of seeing.

Palette

Art Terms

Etching Intaglio Print Still life Gestural Edition Figurative Modern art

Exhibitions

Alberto Giacometti

1965

Philip L. Goodwin Collection

1958

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

1969

Timeless Aspects of Modern Art

1948