Objet Mobiles et Muets

Objets Mobiles et Muets ( Moving and Mute Objects) is a beautiful lithograph on velin and on two sheets, realized by the Italian artist, Alberto Giacometti , in 1952.

The first version of this lithographed Giacometti's Surrealist work with a "poem" in prose to accompany his sketches of 7 of his Surrealist sculptures, was made and signed in 1931, and published by the " Révue de surrealisme. " with an edition of 30 prints.  

Our copy is the second, unsigned edition, published in the deluxe art review " XXe Siècle" in 1952 (publisher G. di San Lazzaro) in an edition of over 1000. In excellent conditions, except for some imperceptible folds on higher margin on the left at the edge of the second sheet.

An English translation of the poem lithographed: "All things - further, all those which are past and others before which budge my girl friends - they change (one passes near them - they are far away) others approach, climb up, go down, the canoes on the water, there in space, go up, go down - I sleep here, the flowers of the rug, the water of the leaking faucet. / Someone is speaking in a room way off: two or three people - of what station? the locomotives which whistle, there is no station near here - one might throw orange peelings from the terrace top into the narrow and deep street, the night the mules bawled desparately, toward morning one slaughtered them, she approaches her head to my pillow."

'Objets Mobiles et Muets' was referenced in the Art Journal on 12/22/05 article titled "Perceptions at play: Giacometti through contemporary eyes." It reads: ….'"Objects of Symbolic Function,” a category Salvador Dali used to reference the sublimated impulses and desires elicited in the viewer by Giacometti's Suspended Ball in his pioneering article on Surrealist objects. The article was published in 1931 in Andre Breton's journal Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution.

 In a double-page layout of the same issue, Giacometti published his own "Objets mobiles et muets", seven drawings framed by automatic prose.

 The dreamlike matter" and the phallic shapes of the mobile sculptures are evident in his sketches and are strictly connected with the Surrealist thought.