sculptures of tall, thin human figures, made in the years 1945 to 1960. Giacometti was influenced by the impressions he took from the people hurrying in the big city. People in motion he saw as "a succession of moments of stillness". The emaciated figures are often interpreted as an expression of the existential fear, insignificance and loneliness of mankind. The mood of fear in the period of the 1940s and the Cold War is reflected in this figure. It feels sad, lonely and difficult to relate to. Legacy Exhibitions Giacometti's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1970); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007–2008); Pushkin Museum, Moscow "The Studio of Alberto Giacometti: Collection of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti" (2008); Kunsthal Rotterdam (2008); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2009); Buenos Aires (2012); Kunsthalle Hamburg (2013); Pera Museum, Istanbul (2015); Tate Modern, London (2017); Vancouver Art Gallery, "Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time" (2019); National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (2022). The National Portrait Gallery, London's first solo exhibition of Giacometti's work, Pure Presence opened to five star reviews on 13 October 2015 (to 10 January 2016, in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death). From April 2019, the Prado Museum in Madrid, has been highlighting Giacometti in an exhibition. Public collections Giacometti's work is displayed in numerous public collections, including: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Art Institute of Chicago Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Berggruen Museum, Berlin Botero Museum, Bogotá, Colombia Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Detroit Institute of Arts Fondation Beyeler, Basel Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Kunsthaus Zürich Kunstmuseum Basel Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, South Korea Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark Minneapolis Institute of Art Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Tate, London Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran University of Michigan Museum of Art Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Vancouver Art Gallery Art foundations The Fondation Alberto