1592999344000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-13789 1747246484886 1719330703000 1747245849311 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-13789 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13789 85c45bea-ca51-3b67-a1c6-42a1cb1d44e2 26 person reference agent-158179 adlib-agent-158179 88cc0f43-f243-3d8f-9d08-de9ae870caa3 Rawsthorne, Isabel reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture reference term-4148 adlib-term-4148 d756a195-9618-3d0b-a5a7-f8f5353fdd11 patina Surface reference term-98112 adlib-term-98112 32d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139 portrait Applied Arts Bronze with dark brown patina. The sitter faces front. Her hair is dressed in a short bouffant style reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian wigs. reference exhibition-1851 adlib-exhibition-1851 10645b23-4d0e-34f2-8545-e963eb968931 Isabel Rawsthorne 1912-1992 9 reference exhibition-1524 adlib-exhibition-1524 42d6e472-23d8-3a56-ad7d-707ecbcddfd9 Alberto Giacometti oeuvres de la maturité reference exhibition-1997 adlib-exhibition-1997 11afac9d-b831-3ee2-b420-f4f8590edde7 Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring reference exhibition-2829 adlib-exhibition-2829 c9783cb3-0b3b-3c9b-88f5-da6ec6924116 Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time reference exhibition-2855 adlib-exhibition-2855 73be90bd-4bbf-3090-a2cc-03555a17f03e Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time M.50-1997 1 accession number M.50-1997 13789 priref 13789 Art UK external ID CAM_CCF_M_50_1997 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13789 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13789 near lower edge Alberto Giacometti signature near lower edge at back Susse Fondeur Paris mark rectangular, puce-pink paper stuck inside neck printed in black XXXI Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezi 1962/438 label in black at the top '9' and at the bottom '77327', and over the end of 'VISITAT'. '7', the last handwritten printed in pale purple 'MERCI' and 'DOGNA ITALIA' and 'VISITAT[?]', and label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Ann Ashard Webb Fund, and grants from the National Art Collections Fund, and the Museums and Galleries Commission Regional Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum. reference agent-171309 adlib-agent-171309 c8121311-f375-3b7e-98eb-267560569bbc Morchoisne, Juliet Ryan 1997 1997 1997 bought Entry date: 1997-04-28 1936 1936 CE 1936 circa 1936 1962 Cast in 1962 from a plaster model of c. 1936 1 1962 CE 1962 1962 sculptor reference agent-51615 adlib-agent-51615 707eb4b2-6680-3857-aed6-85d4f65d0ab0 Giacometti, Alberto The sitter was English painter and designer, Isabel Rawsthorne (née Nicholas, 1912-1992). A successful artist in her own right, Rawsthorne studied at the RCA in London, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and spent two years in the studio of Jacob Epstein. During the war, she worked for the Poltiical Warfare Executive and subsequently painted, depicting dancers, and later, the Essex countryside where she lived for the last forty years of her life. Her paintings were also adapted into designs for the ballet and opera. Her early career brought her into the friendship circles of many high-profile male artists in London and Paris for whom she modelled, including Jacob Epstein, Andre Derain, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon. During the second half of the twentieth century, Rawsthorne was better-known as a muse and model but more recent critical attention has focussed again on her own, impressive, artistic output. The sitter was Isabel Rawsthorne (1912-92), née Nicholas, (later Delmer, and Lambert). This head, also known as ‘The Egyptian Woman’, was produced during Giacometti’s period of intense pre-occupation with drawing and modelling from life between 1935 and 1940. Another portrait, Head of Isabel II of about 1938, is in the Sainsbury Collection at the University of East Anglia. The survival of both heads is exceptional because Giacometti destroyed much of his work during the 1930s. reference term-107749 adlib-term-107749 e089b122-3c61-3b88-a645-624a4a54e267 1930s reference term-107318 adlib-term-107318 d27559f3-e90c-35cd-b7e4-46eaeb9ac521 20th Century reference term-129470 adlib-term-129470 8353db27-fba9-33c1-94a1-f268fd2a2d21 literal France France country Paris reference term-40365 adlib-term-40365 d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005 bronze Depth cm 24.4 Height cm 29.1 Width cm 21.8 reference term-107683 adlib-term-107683 9cdf19fa-4af7-3ca3-b180-580dfffebdc0 head history note The sitter, Isabel Delmer (1912-92), née Nicholas (later Lambert and Rawsthorne), by whom lent to The Fitzwilliam Museum in 1987; by descent to Juliet Ryan Morchoisne reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Sculpture UK Sculpture UK Publ. Illustrated, p. 60, no. 4410, text by Duncan Robinson p. 60 reference publication-1179 adlib-publication-1179 8f4bbc55-73e8-3d82-b635-52e8e6e998fc The National Art Collections Fund 1997 Review Publ. Illustrated, p. 54, no. 9 p. 54 reference publication-2870 adlib-publication-2870 9656abc2-61c6-3810-89aa-736ea773536c Alberto Giacometti oeuvres de la maturité reference publication-8505 adlib-publication-8505 4d81fc96-3d82-3065-b517-573cff5382b9 Alberto Giacometti. A Line through Time reference publication-1177 adlib-publication-1177 c5a39878-2318-34ba-919e-5d7e881070dc Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966 Ref. Bonnefoy states that the head was also known as The Egyptian Woman, and the date was 1936, p. 250, pl. 229. See also passing references on p. 252, 254, 268, 269. pp. 250, 252 reference publication-1178 adlib-publication-1178 24ef6040-f7ef-34a5-9359-a87441e1e7d0 Giacometti Cf. p. 106, lot 261 a Giacometti portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, pencil p. 106 reference publication-2248 adlib-publication-2248 b2706302-71fa-3946-beff-68fe1c2e4cff Impressionist and Modern Art Publ. 172 reference publication-382 adlib-publication-382 ee5148de-e3eb-3d38-88db-9a331edf70b6 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-400002283 adlib-publication-400002283 d0f26f4b-dfe1-39ec-ac8d-3b93d3b85b6a Picasso’s portraits of Isabel Rawsthorne

reference term-107683 adlib-term-107683 9cdf19fa-4af7-3ca3-b180-580dfffebdc0 head

head bronze, cast, with dark brown patina reference term-26699 adlib-term-26699 a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8 casting (process) dark brown reference term-120073 adlib-term-120073 8f03d319-c397-37c8-a0e8-e23ef3cfdbbc patinating object OBJECT