Man Pointing

Mediums: bronze.
Location: The Tate Gallery (the UK).

The work was made for the first exhibition of the sculptor in New York and was initially conceived as a part of a large composition. For this reason, the left hand is made as if it is freely placed around the second figure. Later, Giacometti gave up this idea and considered the “Pointing Man” to be a completely self-sufficient separate work. In his diary, he wrote that “he did it in one night between midnight and nine in the morning”. Sartre called the works of the master of this period “moving shapes” that come out of nowhere. Copies of the sculpture are in the New York Museum of Modern Art and two more museums; three more copies are in private collections and funds.