Gia Lady

Description

These statues were designed by Tisha Marie and inspired by the works of Giacometti.
Alberto Giacometti was a son of the post-impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti, a brother of Diego Giacometti (a painter and craftsman, who later became Alberto’s assistant) and a nephew of the painter Augusto Giacometti. In 1906 the family settled in in Stampa, where Alberto got a studio in a former barn from his father. From 1910 the family spent there summers in a chalet in Maloja, where father and son Giacometti drew and painted many landscapes. One of the first paintings of Alberto, Apples, dates from 1913 and one of his first statues, a bust of Diego, dates from 1914. Alberto was very interested in his father’s art books and this way he learned about the works of, among others, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan van Eyck. He started copying their work, something he would be doing often later on. Because he was an excellent student, he had a studio at his disposal where he could paint and sculpt in his free time during his school years from 1915 to 1919.
This statue is 52 cm high. Made of synthetic resin and hand-painted.