Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Alberto Giacometti · May 25 - July 16, 2010

1018 Madison Avenue
May 25 - July 16, 2010

Press Release

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce the exhibition Alberto Giacometti: Painted Portraits at the gallery's Madison Avenue location.

The exhibition gathers together a focused group of painted portraits from the 1950s (a period of intense painterly exploration for the artist) depicting two of Giacometti's most vital subjects: his brother, Diego, and his wife, Annette.

Most frequently celebrated as a sculptor, the show seeks to re-connect the viewer with Giacometti's psychologically fraught painting technique in which the artist's subject is seemingly conjured out of dark fields of paint through the use of delicate tangles of incised lines and subtle shifts of hue.

Alberto Giacometti: Painted Portraits will be on view from May 25 through June 25 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash's uptown gallery, Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm.

Exhibition Artists

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Exhibition Images

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
"Tête Noire (Diego)," 1951
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 by 25 5/8 in. 81 by 65.1 cm.


ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
"Diego, Chemise Rouge," 1954
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 by 23 5/8 in. 73 by 60 cm.


ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
"Annette Seated," 1954
Oil on canvas
35 1/4 by 28 3/4 in. 89.5 by 73 cm.


ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Red Lamps
1990-96
Mixed media collage on board
57 3/4 by 78 3/4 in. 146.7 by 200 cm.
(MI&N 9925)


Interior with Three Hanging Lamps
1991
Mixed Media and Collage on board
60 by 35 3/4 in. 152.4 by 90.8 cm


The Living Room
1990 - 96
Mixed Media Collage on board
58 1/4 by 71 7/8 in. 148 by 182.6 cm