Paris to host first museum devoted to Alberto Giacometti with more than 10,000 artworks and objects

"The foundation's collection is exceptionally large, encompassing more than 10,000 items-including thousands of drawings, over 400 sculptures, 100 paintings, a whole collection of decorative objets d'art, prints, everything that was in the studio, all the archives. Most of the collection has never been exhibited."

"People don't know we have masterpieces from the earliest period, when Giacometti was very young, masterpieces from the Surrealist period, masterpieces from wartime, masterpieces from after the war, masterpieces from the late period. The foundation is having to think about which works it will not be able to fit in."

"When Giacometti died intestate in a Swiss hospital in 1966, his wife Annette inherited his entire estate. She spent the decades until her death in 1993 refusing to sell anything that was not editioned and obsessively cataloguing and archiving the items in her keep."

The Giacometti Museum and School will open in 2028 in Paris's 7th arrondissement, marking the first museum dedicated to Swiss master Alberto Giacometti. The foundation's collection contains over 10,000 items, including thousands of drawings, over 400 sculptures, 100 paintings, decorative objects, prints, and archives. The new 6,000 square meter facility, located in the former Invalides train station, will dedicate half its space to displaying Giacometti's work. Despite the substantial space, the foundation must carefully select which masterpieces to exhibit, as most of the collection has never been shown publicly. Annette Giacometti, the artist's widow, meticulously preserved and catalogued his entire estate after his 1966 death, refusing to sell non-editioned works and maintaining comprehensive documentation.

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