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Article: Giacometti's final frenzy: the paintings of Caroline: for five years, from 1960 to 1965, Giacometti was obsessed with painting his final muse, a prostitute known as Caroline. Bruce Laughton explores the development of these powerful and moving portraits of a woman who described herself as the artist's 'frenzy' but showed no interest in the works.
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Alberto Giacometti met Caroline at the end of 1958. He was then 57, she was 20, living in the Hotel de Sevres in Montparnasse, and working as a flourishing prostitute. (1) They struck up a close friendship and he saw her frequently, apparently from around November until late February 1960 when he left to visit his mother in Stampa, Switzerland, where he stayed until the end of March. There is no evidence to show that Caroline posed for paintings during that period, although she visited the studio fairly regularly. He doubtless drew her from time to time, bur the earliest recorded work is a drawing made in a bar inscribed A l'O.K. en 1960 ...
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