Monumental Head Explained
Monumental Head is a 1960 bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The abstract work measures 37 x 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches and depicts a roughly modeled head with an extended neck.[1] Other casts of Monumental Head from this period are found in the collections of other institutions, including the Phillips Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[2] [3]
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- Web site: Monumental Head, (sculpture).. Smithsonian Institution. May 5, 2013. May 4, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120504174457/http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!373139~!0#focus. live.
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