1901-1966. Swiss sculptor and painter, who
trained in Italy and Paris. In the 1930s, in
his Surrealist period, he began to develop
his characteristic spindly constructions. His
mature style of emaciated single figures,
based on wire frames, emerged in the 1940s.
Some are so elongated that they seem almost
without volume. Man Pointing 1947 is one of
many examples in the Tate Gallery, London.