Editing Alberto Giacometti (section)

== Legacy ==

=== Exhibitions ===
[[File:Untitled (Landscape in Rome).jpeg|thumb|''Untitled (Landscape in Rome)'' (1920–21), [[The Phillips Collection]]]]
Giacometti's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including the [[High Museum of Art]], Atlanta (1970); [[Centre Pompidou]], Paris (2007–2008); [[Pushkin Museum]], Moscow ''"The Studio of Alberto Giacometti: Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti"'' (2008); [[Kunsthal]] Rotterdam (2008); [[Fondation Beyeler]], Basel (2009);  Buenos Aires (2012); [[Kunsthalle Hamburg]] (2013); [[Pera Museum]], Istanbul (2015); [[Tate Modern]], London (2017);<ref>{{cite web |title="Alberto Giacometti – press release |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/alberto-giacometti |website=Tate |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref> [[Vancouver Art Gallery]], ''"Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time"'' (2019); [[National Gallery of Ireland]], Dublin (2022).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/alberto-giacometti-a-line-through-time|title=Alberto Giacometti: A line through time: June 16, 2019 – September 29, 2019|access-date=16 September 2019|website=Vancouver Art Gallery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandgardens/arid-40849877.html|title=Giacometti at the National Gallery is a must-see|first=Des|last=O’Sullivan|date=16 April 2022|website=Irish Examiner}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegloss.ie/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-giacometti-exhibition/|title=All You Need To Know About The New Giacometti Exhibition|first=Penny|last=McCormick|date=8 April 2022|website=The Gloss Magazine}}</ref>

The [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], London's first solo exhibition of Giacometti's work, ''Pure Presence'' opened to five star reviews on 13 October 2015 (to 10 January 2016, in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Jonathan|title=Giacometti: Pure Presence review – the most profound, universal art of the past 75 years|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/13/giacometti-pure-presence-review-national-portrait-gallery|access-date=13 October 2015|work=Guardian online|date=13 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Luke|first1=Ben|title=Giacometti: Pure Presence, exhibition review: Profound portrait of the artist's progress|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/giacometti-pure-presence-exhibition-review-profound-portrait-of-the-artist-s-progress-a3089201.html|access-date=13 October 2015|work=Evening Standard online|date=13 October 2015}}</ref>
From April 2019, the [[Prado Museum]] in Madrid, has been highlighting Giacometti in an exhibition.

=== Public collections ===
Giacometti's work is displayed in numerous public collections, including:
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* [[Albright-Knox Art Gallery]], [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
* [[Art Institute of Chicago]]
* [[Baltimore Museum of Art]], [[Baltimore]], Maryland
* [[Bechtler Museum of Modern Art]], [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]
* [[Berggruen Museum]], Berlin
* [[Botero Museum]], [[Bogotá, Colombia]]
* [[Bündner Kunstmuseum]] Chur, Switzerland
* [[Carnegie Museum of Art]], [[Pittsburgh]]
* [[Detroit Institute of Arts]]
* [[Beyeler Foundation|Fondation Beyeler]], Basel
* [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], Washington D.C.
* [[Holstebro]], Denmark
* [[J. Paul Getty Museum]], Los Angeles, California
* [[Johnson Museum of Art]], [[Cornell University]]
* [[Kunsthaus Zürich]]
* [[Kunstmuseum Basel]]
* [[Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art]], [[South Korea]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://leeum.samsungfoundation.org/html_eng/exhibition/exhibition_view.asp|title=Exhibition|publisher=leeum.samsungfoundation.org|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]
* [[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art]], Denmark
* [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]]
* [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York
* [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]
* [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington D.C.
* [[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa
* [[North Carolina Museum of Art]], [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ncartmuseum.org/artist/alberto-giacometti|title=Artist: Alberto Giacometti – North Carolina Museum of Art|website=ncartmuseum.org|access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>
* [[Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts]], [[University of East Anglia]]
* [[Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art]], Scottsdale, Arizona
* [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York
* [[Tate]], London
* [[Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art]], Iran
* [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]]
* [[Wadsworth Atheneum]], [[Hartford]]
* [[Walker Art Center]], [[Minneapolis]]
*[[Vancouver Art Gallery]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019|title=ALBERTO GIACOMETTI: A LINE THROUGH TIME|url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/alberto-giacometti-a-line-through-time|website=Vanartgallery}}</ref>
*[[Yale University Art Gallery]], [[New Haven]]
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=== Art foundations ===
The [[Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti]], having received a bequest from Alberto Giacometti's widow Annette, holds a collection of circa 5,000 works, frequently displayed around the world through exhibitions and long-term loans. A public interest institution, the Foundation was created in 2003 and aims at promoting, disseminating, preserving and protecting Alberto Giacometti's work.

The Alberto-Giacometti-Stiftung<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.giacometti-stiftung.ch/|title=Alberto Giacometti Stiftung: root|website=www.giacometti-stiftung.ch|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref> established in Zürich in 1965, holds a smaller collection of works acquired from the collection of the Pittsburgh industrialist [[G. David Thompson]].

=== Notable sales ===
[[File:E Wehrmann - Alberto Giacomett in Venedig (1962) cropped.jpg|thumb|Alberto Giacometti at the 31st Venice Biennale, 1962]]
According to record Giacometti has sold the two [[List of most expensive sculptures|most expensive sculptures]] in history.

In November 2000 a Giacometti bronze, ''Grande Femme Debout I'', sold for [[United States dollar|$]]14.3 million.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,395302,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Art record Picasso painting goes for £39m at auction | date=10 November 2000 | access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref> ''Grande Femme Debout II'' was bought by the [[Gagosian Gallery]] for $27.4 million at [[Christie's]] auction in New York City on 6 May 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512060740/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A|url-status=dead|title=Afp.google.com, Monet fetches record price at New York auction|archive-date=12 May 2008|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref>

''[[L'Homme qui marche I]]'', a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man, became one of the most expensive works of art, and at the time was the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction. It was in February 2010, when it sold for £65 million (US$104.3 million) at [[Sotheby's]], London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8497287.stm|title=Sculpture fetches £65m at auction|date=5 February 2010|access-date=16 September 2019|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36031|title=Alberto Giacometti's Walking Man I Sells for a Record-Breaking $104,327,006 at Sotheby's|website=artdaily.com|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref> ''[[Grande tête mince]]'', a large bronze bust, sold for $53.3 million just three months later.
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''[[L'Homme au doigt]]'' (''Pointing Man'') sold for $126 million (£81,314,455.32), or $141.3 million with fees, in Christie's May 2015, "Looking Forward to the Past" sale in New York City. The work had been in the same private collection for 45 years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Artworks Top $100 Million Each at Christie's Sale (Artsbeat blog)|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/two-art-works-top-100-million-each-at-christies-sale/|first1=Scott | last1=Reyburn |access-date=12 May 2015|newspaper=New York Times|date=11 May 2015}}</ref> As of now it is the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.

After being showcased on the BBC programme ''[[Fake or Fortune]]'', a plaster sculpture, titled ''Gazing Head'', sold in 2019 for half a million pounds.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/22/worthless-sculpture-bbcs-fake-fortune-actually-priceless-giacometti/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/22/worthless-sculpture-bbcs-fake-fortune-actually-priceless-giacometti/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title='Worthless' sculpture from BBC's Fake or Fortune proves to be authentic Giacometti worth more than £500,000|first=Dalya|last=Alberge|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=23 August 2019|access-date=16 September 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In April 2021, Giacometti's small-scale bronze sculpture, Nu debout II (1953), was sold from a Japanese private collection and went for £1.5 million ($2 million), against an estimate of £800,000 ($1.1 million).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Villa|first=Angelica|date=15 April 2021|title=$34.2 M. Phillips London Sale Brings Tunji Adeniyi-Jones Record and Air of Optimism|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/phillips-london-tunji-adenjiyi-jones-jean-dubuffet-results-1234589900/|access-date=17 April 2021|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Other legacy ===
Giacometti created the monument on the grave of [[Gerda Taro]] at [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]].<ref>Robert Whelan, "Robert Capa, the definitive collection", p. 8, [[Phaidon Press|Phaidon press]] 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-7148-4449-7}}</ref>

According to a lecture by [[Michael Peppiatt]] at Cambridge University on 8 July 2010, Giacometti, who had a friendship with author/playwright [[Samuel Beckett]], created a tree for the [[Theatrical scenery|set]] of a 1961 Paris production of ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''.

Giacometti and his sculpture ''L'Homme qui marche I'' appear on the former [[Banknotes of Switzerland|100 Swiss franc banknote]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.snb.ch/de/iabout/cash/current/design/id/cash_current_design_100|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127092859/http://snb.ch/de/iabout/cash/current/design/id/cash_current_design_100|url-status=dead|title=Schweizer Nationalbank|archive-date=27 January 2010|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref>

In 2001 he was included in the [[Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000]] exhibition held at the [[National Portrait Gallery (England)|National Portrait Gallery]], London.

Giacometti's sculptural style has featured in advertisements for various financial institutions, starting in 1987 with the ''Shoes'' ad for [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] directed by [[Gerry Anderson]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – h2g2 – 'Shoes' – the Royal Bank of Scotland Advert |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/A823376 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref><ref>Readings in Popular Culture: trivial pursuits?; edited by Gary Day; Macmillan; London; 1990</ref>

The 2017 movie ''[[Final Portrait]]'' retells the story of his friendship with the biographer [[James Lord (author)|James Lord]]. Giacometti is played by [[Geoffrey Rush]].