Alberto Giacometti
Headless Woman
1931
Scroll
Alberto Giacometti
Headless Woman
1931
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 57 1/2 × 11 × 14 1/4 in. (146.1 × 27.9 × 36.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Collection
Object Number
1966.55.9
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1966; Alan and Janet Wurtzburger, Baltimore, by purchase, 1960; Peggy Guggenheim, Venice
Albert E. Elsen, Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture from Rodin to 1969", December 2, 1969-February 1, 1970, no.28, ill.p.61.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005, Naples Museum of Art February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor", Dallas, January 21 - April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9-September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007-February 3, 2008, cat. no. 154, p. 278, ill. p. 243.
Gagosian Gallery, "Objects of Affection: Isabel and the Image of the Others", November 3- December 2008.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005, Naples Museum of Art February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor", Dallas, January 21 - April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9-September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007-February 3, 2008, cat. no. 154, p. 278, ill. p. 243.
Gagosian Gallery, "Objects of Affection: Isabel and the Image of the Others", November 3- December 2008.
J. Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 217 (ill of plaster)
Albert E. Elsen, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture from Rodin to 1969, Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969, p.110, no.28, p.61.
Kosinski, Dorothy, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven Nash. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: Nasher Sculpture Center; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, pages 243, 278, cat. no. 154.
Murray Moss, "Dialogues Between Art and Design", New York: Phillips de Pury and Company, 2012,
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: on base: '3/Alberto Giacometti 1932/36'
