Standing Woman
- Artist: Alberto Giacometti
- Date: c.1958–9, cast released by the artist 1964
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: object: 686 x 140 x 270 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is “Standing Woman” by Alberto Giacometti, a bronze cast made in the late 1950s, released by the artist in 1964. The figure is a study in slenderness and fragility—Giacometti’s late‑era fragments often omit arms or limbs, creating a sense of incomplete presence. The surface is oddly flat, giving the narrow hips a sculptural edge that feels almost translucent. The writer Jean Genet once noted that the similarity among Giacometti’s figures shows “the loneliness of being exactly equivalent to all others.” It was purchased in 1965 with help from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, and it sits quietly, inviting viewers to contemplate that quiet, solitary stance.
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.
