Annette Seated, 1958

  • Alberto Giacometti, Swiss, 1901-1966

Oil and pencil on canvas

  • Unframed: 45 1/2 × 35 inches (115.6 × 88.9 cm)
  • 46 5/8 × 35 7/8 × 1 3/4 inches (118.4 × 91.1 × 4.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

60.88

Signed and dated, lower right: Alberto Giacometti 1958

(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

1960-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 39, no. 3 (1959): pp. 91-92 (ill.). Dupin, J. Alberto Giacometti. Paris, 1963, p. 165 (ill.). Alberto Giacometti. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1964, no. 132, pl. 53. The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 14. Alberto Giacometti à l'Orangerie des Tuileries. Exh. cat., Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Palais du Louvre. Paris, 1969, no. 174, p. 117 (ill.). Giacometti. Exh. cat., Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo. Mexico City, 1987, p. 44 (ill.), no. 79. Fletcher, Valerie J. "Observations on Paintings in the Founation's Collection." The Studio of Alberto Giacometti, ed. Veronique Wiesinger. Paris, 2007, pp. 180-183. Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers: Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon. Exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery. New York, 2008, p. 59 (ill.).

Alberto Giacometti, Annette Seated, 1958, oil and pencil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 60.88.