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Man Pointing

Alberto Giacometti

Man Pointing

1946

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Alberto Giacometti

Man Pointing

1946

Physical Qualities Bronze, 70 x 38 x 17 in. (177.8 x 96.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.382
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951: from Saidie A. May by purchase, 1949; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; the artist
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, "Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings", 1948.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture", March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 120.

The Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Giacometti Retrospective", 1963.

The Phillips Collection, Washington D. C., "Giacometti", 1963.

Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C., "International Sculpture Exhibition", 1963.
Pierre Matisse Gallery. "Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings," New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery,1948, cat. no. 22.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 120, p. 26.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Inscribed: Inscribed "1947" with cast number "2/6"

Artist

Alberto Giacometti

1900–1965

Swiss, 1901-1966
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