Nu aux Fleurs. Nude with Flowers. by Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966

Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966
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Nu aux Fleurs. Nude with Flowers.

Original lithograph in black ink. 1960. Signed in full in pencil. Numbered in pencil from the edition of 90 (34/90). Drawn at the studio of Arte Adrien Maeght. Published by Galerie Maeght, Paris 1960.
Ref: Lust - Giacometti Complete Graphics no 32. Maeght Archive no 233.

Excellent impression. On pale cream wove Rives paper. Excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 25 3/4 x 20ins. Image: 14 3/4 x 11 1//4ins (375x298mm)

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'Face to face with a Giacometti image the spectator finds himself as if involved in a reciprocal engagement'; thus David Sylvester, writing in his introductory essay to the Arts Council Giacometti exhibition in 1965, described the unique relationship between image and viewer which the artist created in his work. There is a sense of confrontation, of tingling immediate communication, which goes out from image to viewer and back again. The immediacy of this communication is centred in the way that Giacometti pared-down his studies of the human form, whether in standing figures or in face-on 'portraits', to an inner essence. The outer layers of a being are cast aside as irrelevant, and only the intense inner kernel remains.

The nude studies of Annette which Giacometti drew in the 1960's, both in pencil and in lithographic chalk, as well as the paintings in oil, show the full power of this 'reciprocal engagement'. In their handling of the chalk, and in their treatment of line, the lithographs on this theme are amongst Giacometti's finest graphic works.