Entrance to the 1960 annex with Giacometti exhibition, 1963. Photo from Phillips Collection Archives.
Giacometti opens on February 7, 1963, comprising 37 sculptures. From this show, Monumental Head (1960) is purchased for the collection. In his introduction to the catalogue, Duncan Phillips writes of Alberto Giacometti:
Out of all this creative exploration there emerges one constant – one single ‘artistic personality’ – Berenson’s sine qua non. It is to be found in [Giacometti’s] every period. It is the image of a human being, miniature or massive, the image of a lonely estranged presence beyond specific description.