Author: (Giacometti, Alberto). Svendsen, Louise Averill.
Title: Alberto Giacometti: Sculptor and Draftsman.
Description: (New York): The American Federation of Arts, (1977). (1977). - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with some darkening & light soiling along the spine. 96 pages. Profusely illustrated in black, white & gray. There is offsetting from a newspaper clipping to the inside front wrap. Very good.

Catalog for a traveling exhibition of drawings and a few sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, organized and circulated by the American Federation of Arts and curated by Louise Averill Svendsen. The catalog essay is by Svendsen, the foreword by Wilder Green, and the introduction by Milton D. Ratner, from whose collection most of the works were selected.

A New York Times review of the exhibition is laid in. Very good .

Keywords: ART; SCULPTURE; GRAPHIC ART; DRAWINGS; SCULPTURES; ITALIAN ARTIST; ALBERTO GIACOMETTI: SCULPTOR AND DRAFTSMAN; EXHIBITION; CATALOG; CURATOR; LOUISE AVERILL SVENDSEN; COLLECTOR; MILTON D. RATNER; WILDER GREEN; AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS; ILLUSTRATIONS.

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