The Dog

Mediums: bronze.
Location: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (the USA).

Giacometti sculpted the almost full-size and life-size dog, wandering slowly with his head bowed, in the first years of his stay in Paris; however, it was cast in bronze much later. The author, commenting on his creation among his friends and in an interview with the press, argued that this work is a self-portrait. Perhaps he meant restlessness and a desire to find something extraordinary. A little later, the master sculpted the same emaciated cat with a large round head in the same nervous manner.