The Palace at 4 a.m.

Alberto Giacometti · 1932

Before you is The Palace at 4 a.m., built by Alberto Giacometti in nineteen thirty-two out of wood, glass, wire and string. It is a room with no walls, at the hour named in the title. Almost nothing is solid — the structure describes a space rather than filling one.

Medium Wood, glass, wire, and string · Dimensions 25 x 28 1/4 x 15 3/4" (63.5 x 71.8 x 40 cm) · Credit Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: The Little Theater, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Casa Mara, Caracas, Venezuela, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project (Exterior perspective of model A101), Oxygen House Project (Plan), Verseidag Administration Building, Krefeld, Germany, Interior perspective, looking northeast, Slow House Project, North Haven, Long Island, New York (Perspective and plans of TV in Picture Window Apparatus), Terrarium Showroom project, California (Scale model, 1/16" = 1')

More by Alberto Giacometti here: Spoon Woman