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Walking Man I and Walking Man Ii WALKING MAN I AND WALKING MAN II Tall Woman I, Tall Woman II, Tall Woman IV, Walking Man I, Walking Man II and Large Head were conceived in plaster by Alberto Giacometti in 1959-1960. The works were originally commissioned as a monumental sculpture for the Chase Manhattan Bank's new headquarters in New York, but the project never came through. The finished monument was installed in 1964 in the courtyard of the Maeght Foundation in the South of France. The monument comprises of six sculptures. In 1960, Giacometti decided to start casting bronze editions of each of the six elements to be released independently. Upon the artist’s death in 1966, the plasters for these elements were still at the foundry, awaiting further casting. When the Giacometti estate was divided in 2004, these plasters entered the collections of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in Paris and of the Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung in Zürich. Walking Man I, 1960 WALKING MAN I 180,5 x 27 x 97 cm 1981 cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris Alberto and Annette Giacometti Fondation, Paris © Giacometti Estate 2012 The plaster is now in Zürich, in the collections of the Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung. To this day, 10 bronzes have been cast out of the 12 NUMBERED BRONZE CASTS authorized for limited editions of original IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS artworks under copyright laws. 1/6: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA The edition includes an artist's proof (0/6) and 3/6: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA three proofs cast for institutions (inscribed 6/6: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, “FONDATION MAEGHT”, “UNESCO”, and Iran “FONDATION A. A. GIACOMETTI”), cast between 1960 and 1982. plasters remained at the foundry to be cast on INSTITUTIONAL BRONZE CASTS demand. ”FONDATION MAEGHT” Using the very same technique, casts made Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, after his death are indistinguishable from Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France lifetime casts. More than the date of casting, “UNESCO” it is indeed the quality of the cast and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and fidelity to the plaster model that guarantee Cultural Organisation, Paris, France the value of the work. “FONDATION A. A. GIACOMETTI” Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris, France WALKING MAN II The plaster is now in Paris, in the collections of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation. To this day, 9 bronzes have been cast out of the 12 authorized for limited editions of original artworks under copyright laws. The edition includes an artist's proof (0/6) and two proofs cast for institutions (inscribed: « FONDATION MAEGHT » and « MUSEE LOUISIANA ») cast between 1960 and 1979. NUMBERED BRONZE CASTS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 1/6: National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA 2/6: Art Institute, Chicago, USA 4/6: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland 6/6: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Holland Walking Man II, 1960 INSTITUTIONAL BRONZE CASTS 189 x 26 x 110 cm Cast 4/6 by Susse Fondeur, Paris Beyeler Foundation, Riehen, Switzerland ”FONDATION MAEGHT” Photo: Robert Bayer © Giacometti Estate 2012 Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France ”MUSÉE LOUISIANA” Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark Giacometti's choice of editing his plasters in bronze was that of a reproduction made by the foundry. The artist did not participate in the process. Once the first bronze was cast, May 2012 .
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