A Giacometti Portrait

Artist: Alberto Giacometti 
Author: James Lord 
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York 
Date: 1965 
Condition: A first edition paperback of this interesting volume, clean and tidy, the spine unbroken; some minor tanning to the edges and a little sunning to the top of the front cover

The American writer James Lord (1922-2009) had met Alberto Giacometti in Paris in 1952 and the two became friends. He sat for a portrait to Giacometti in 1964 and wrote this account of the experience. It is however more than just a record, being an illuminating insight into not only the artist's process, but the wider elements of the genre, the times and the artist himself. Lord would later produce a definitive biography of Giacometti, published in 1985.

If you want to take a short vacation back to the Paris of the 50s and 60s, then sit yourself down with this book