1949, Alberto Giacometti, Interior -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: In this painting, Giacometti depicts a corner of his studio that he used for forty years: a small, damp and unheated ground-floor room, in a working-class area of southern Paris. Several of his sculptures of standing or walking figures are on the worktable, while some busts rest on the floor. Like his portrait paintings, Giacometti renders this familiar scene as if dissected by his eye, quickly reconstructed on the canvas through bundles of energetic lines. He said: 'Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.’
1949, Alberto Giacometti, Interior -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: In this painting, Giacometti depicts a corner of his studio that he used for forty years: a small, damp and unheated ground-floor room, in a working-class area of southern Paris. Several of his sculptures of standing or walking figures are on the worktable, while some busts rest on the floor. Like his portrait paintings, Giacometti renders this familiar scene as if dissected by his eye, quickly reconstructed on the canvas through bundles of energetic lines. He said: 'Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.’