Black-and-white photograph of Alberto Giacometti and Annette Arm facing each other in his Paris studio, 1951

“The form is always the measure of the obsession.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto and Annette in the studio, 1951
Photograph Alexander Liberman
Coll. Fondation Giacometti, Paris

About the Annette Collection
Named after Annette Arm, Giacometti’s partner and principal model, this collection explores the quiet gravity of devotion.
It reflects the intensity behind restraint — forms shaped not just by hands, but by presence.
Each piece holds the echo of work done with care and the clarity that comes from standing still.

Alberto Giacometti’s hands carving a small bust of Annette Giacometti in his studio, with Annette blurred in the background (1962)

Alberto Giacometti working on a bust of Annette Giacometti, 1962
Photograph: Franco Cianetti