{"id":8823,"date":"2010-12-10T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=8823"},"modified":"2010-12-11T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:19:45","slug":"giacometti-painting-in-his-studio-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/giacometti-painting-in-his-studio-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Giacometti Painting in His Studio, 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Scheidegger-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Scheidegger-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"In Giacomett&#039;s Studio, Michael Peppiatt. Photograph by Ernst Scheidegger. \" width=\"573\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Scheidegger-22.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Scheidegger-22-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Scheidegger-22-677x1024.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credit:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Giacomettis-Studio-Michael-Peppiatt\/dp\/0300093934\">In Giacometti&#8217;s Studio<\/a><em>, by Michael Peppiatt. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->See also: Saul Steinberg, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/6068\/portraits-and-landscapes-saul-steinberg\">Portraits and Landscapes<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: In Giacometti&#8217;s Studio, by Michael Peppiatt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[1519,35,1521,100,964,1520],"class_list":["post-8823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-alberto-giacometti","tag-art","tag-michael-peppiatt","tag-photography","tag-sculpture","tag-yale-university-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Giacometti Painting in His Studio, 1965 by Ernst Scheidegger<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 10, 2010 \u2013 Credit: In Giacometti&#039;s Studio, by Michael Peppiatt.   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