Caroline

Painted in a muted palette of black, white, and gray, this portrait features a young woman who confronts the viewer head-on. Her frontality and disproportionately small head characterize Alberto Giacometti’s art. He made 20 portraits of this young Parisian woman in her mid-20s, whom he described as having eyes that “radiate intensity.” The subject’s loosely drawn body contrasts with her head, where the artist repeatedly applied paint, scraped it off, and painted over it again.