Word: helvetia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Family. He was a fastidious inheritor who left no heirs, and this seems to have been as true in the sense of family as that of cultural choice. The Guggenheim's retrospective opens with a separate exhibition - also funded by a grant from the Alcoa and Pro Helvetia Foundations - entitled Three Swiss Painters. This is the first detailed look the U.S. public has had at the work of Giacometti's family circle of gifted painters, who surrounded him with protective confidence. They are his godfather Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), his cousin Augusto Giacometti...