Giacometti
Americannoun
noun
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And funny: Don’t miss the tiny cat by Giacometti that’s hidden off to the side of the structure beside an imposing sphinx.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
"I thought 'Wow, they cannot be' and after my first investigation, it turns out they were made by Alberto Giacometti."
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025
Hunt was drawn to abstractions and was influenced by the works of Julio González, Pablo Picasso, David Smith and Alberto Giacometti, as well as his own extensive African art collection.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2023
The collection underwritten by his fortune became massive — more than 100,000 pieces — and it included 6,000 oil paintings, many of them by important Swiss artists like Augusto Giacometti and Ferdinand Hodler.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023
It was a standing joke against him in Dr. Burton's family that when at the club he was never at home to anybody except a certain Mrs. Giacometti Prodgers.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
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