Standing Woman
- Artist: Alberto Giacometti
- Date: c.1958–9, cast released by the artist 1964
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: object: 692 x 137 x 241 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the "Standing Woman" by Alberto Giacometti, a bronze from around 1958‑59 that was cast in 1964. In the late 1950s Giacometti began making fragmentary figures with arms missing or only partially present. The result is a slender, almost skeletal form that feels both vivid and fragile. The writer Jean Genet once said that Giacometti’s figures reveal the loneliness that comes when each person is exactly equal to the other. This sculpture was acquired with the help of the Friends of the Tate Gallery in 1965. It sits on a modest base stamped with the artist’s name and a reference to the studio that cast it. Watching it, you can almost feel the quiet tension of a woman standing alone yet linked to a broader human experience.
See it in person
Standing Woman is in the collection of Tate Modern on Bankside, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
