The philosopher Isaku Yanaihara (1918-1989) looms large in the literature on Alberto Giacometti. During his sojourns in France between 1956 and 1961, Yanaihara sat repeatedly for this sculptor, one of the greatest in the twentieth century. Of the artist’s numerous portraits of his Japanese philosopher, however, only two bronzes were finished, of which only seven casts in total are currently known. It is one of these rarities that came to the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) in 2018, the first to enter a Japanese collection. Having acquired the oil Man [Homme] (1956) in 2013, NMAO offers an opportunity to view both Giacometti’s painting and sculpture, on which he staked his entire life in a struggle to render “what one sees as one sees it.”

Artists
Alberto GIACOMETTI, Hajime IMAMURA, Tony CRAGG, Luc TUYMANS, Stephan BALKENHOL, Georg BASELITZ, Marlene DUMAS, Izumi KATO, Julian OPIE, Shimon MINAMIKAWA, Junichi MORI, Tomoaki SUZUKI, Yasuyuki NISHIO, Koji TANADA, Thomas RUFF, Loretta LUX, Boris MIKHAILOV, Miyako ISHIUCHI, Ken KITANO, Michelangelo PISTOLETTO, Rei NAITO, Jiro TAKAMATSU, Yuki ONODERA, Tetsumi KUDO, Shusaku ARAKAWA, Yayoi KUSAMA, Tomoko YONEDA, Araya RASDJARMREARNSOOK, Sherrie LEVINE, Teresa HUBBARD / Alexander BIRCHLER, Chia-En JAO, Tsubasa KATO, Mieko(Chieko) SHIOMI, Keiichi IKEMIZU, Tsuyoshi OZAWA, Heman CHONG

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