Among the most striking aspects of the two hundred years of the Prado Museum’s life since it first opened has been its progressive transformation into a place of pilgrimage for avant-garde artists. From Courbet to Bacon and including Manet, Degas, Whistler and Picasso, these artists’ visits to the Prado represented a turning point in their careers. There have also, however, been some notable absences, none perhaps better known than that of Giacometti, to whom this unique exhibition is now dedicated. Giacometti saw art as a single and simultaneous place in which time past and present converged, and his works now offer a testament to the timelessness of the human figure as a representational model for art of all periods. Alberto Giacometti (Borgonovo, 1901 – Chur, 1966) was the son of a leading Swiss, Postimpressionist artist. He began to draw avidly as a child and to produce copies, the majority based on repro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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