Alberto Giacometti was the son of Giovanni Giacometti, a well-known post-impressionist painter. It was in his father’s studio that he was initiated into art, and at the age of 14 he produces his first works: a Still life with apples, in oils, and a sculpted bust of his brother Diego. In 1922, he went to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. He sets up his studio on Rue Hippolyte Maindron. At that time, he learned how to draw models, and became interested in avant gardist, particularly post cubist, compositions. In 1929, he began a series of “flat women”, which brought him to the attention of the artistic milieu. In 1930, he joined André Breton’s movement, and surrealism began to occupy an important place in his creativity: life and death, oneiric visions, ambiguous objects with erotic connotation.