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Paris sans fin.

Creator: Alberto Giacometti
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
GIACOMETTI, ALBERTO.
Paris sans fin.
Stock Code 101200
Paris, Tériade, 1969
£37,500
Giacometti's testament to art and modern life in his beloved Paris.

For the publisher, Tériade, it would be a milestone, the last great publication he would see through the press. The two men [Tériade and Giacometti] had maintained a close friendship ever since the Surrealist Years. The one hundred and fifty lithographs are a profoundly interpenetrating view of Giacometti's experience of Paris. He selected the plates to be printed and determined the order of their relationship, numbering each one. The frontispiece shows a nude figure of a woman plunging forward, as though diving into space, and is immediately followed by a quantity of views of city streets, then of interiors familiar to the artist. We come upon views of his studio, of the cafes he frequented, of Annette's apartment in the rue Mazarine and Caroline's in the Avenue du Maine, strangers at cafe tables, passers by, parked automobiles, the towers Saint-Suplice, bridges across the Seine, The Eiffel Tower. To accompany the hundred and fifty plates, a text of twenty pages was planned, but the artist never got further than a few rough drafts. True, he was a devotee of words, Paris sans fin, however, said too much to the eye to be in need of other symbols (James Lord, Giacometti A Biography).

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	France
Period:	1950-1979
Creation Date:	1969
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Dealer Reference #:	101200
Incollect Reference #:	584324

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