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The Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti is a leading French public utility institution created by a French Ministry of Culture decree of December 2003.

Its purpose is the promotion, dissemination, preservation and protection of the works of Alberto Giacometti. It is headquartered in Paris. Its president is Jacques Vistel, an honorary Councillor of State, and it is headed by Véronique Wiesinger, Chief Heritage Curator, French Ministry of Culture.

The Foundation is the sole beneficiary of the legacy of Annette Giacometti, his widow, who died in 1993. She owned the largest collection of Giacometti's works in the world: 95 paintings, 260 bronze sculptures, 550 plaster scultures, and thousands of drawings and engravings. The foundation also holds very large archives giving background to the artist's creations: numerous notebooks and sketchbooks, manuscripts for published texts, correspondence with other artists and intellectuals, as well as a large part of his private library, including reviews, books, exhibition catalogues, and newspapers, some of which have his annotations or drawings.

The Foundation works on establishing a comprehensive calalogue of the artist's works, or Catalogue raisonné from the records started by his widow. It also organises exhibitions of works from its collection, and provides short and long-term loans to major museums and cultural institutions. The premises housing the collection are not open to the general public, however the entire collection is progressively being made available online.

Administration and implementation
The foundation is administered by a nine-member board, including two French Government representatives (statutory members: the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Culture and Communication and a member of the Fondation Alberto Giacometti at Zürich (Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung).

Mission
The Foundation has a mission to protect, dissemminate and make available Giacommetti's works. Its activities include: The collection has over 5,000 of Giacometti's works, Riche de de plus de 5000 oeuvres, housed in several museums. Also, the Foundation participates in many cultural activities, lectures, themed exhibitions,and conferences. It is involved in the publication, reproduction and editing of all forms of his work. For this purpose, it monitors related publications, exhibitions and sales, and the sale of counterfeit works, attempting to remove them from the market and pursue the counterfeiters. It grants permission to display, edit and publish Giacometti's works.
 * Public diisplay of works:
 * Conservation of the Alberto et Annette Giacometti archives
 * Cataloguing the works
 * Awards and scholarships
 * Protection of the works both in France and abroad:

Major exhibitions

 * 2011: Alberto Giacometti. Une Rétrospective. Collections de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti("A retrospective. Collections from the Foundation Alberto and Annette Giacometti")
 * 17 October 2011 – 5 February 2012
 * Co-organised with the Museo Picasso Málaga, Malaga, Spain.


 * 2010: Alberto Giacometti : La Femme au chariot ("The lady in the carriage")
 * 31 January – 18 April
 * Co-organised with the Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum Zentrum, Duisburg, Germany.


 * 2010: Daniel Buren - Alberto Giacometti. Œuvres contemporaines 1964-1966 ("Contemporary works 1964–1966")
 * 29 April – 26 June
 * Co-organised with the Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France


 * 2008: Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers. Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon
 * 3 November – 13 December
 * Co-organised with the Gagosian Gallery, New York, United States.


 * 2008: En perspective, Giacometti
 * 17 May – 31 August
 * Co-organised with the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France.


 * 2008: Alberto Giacometti
 * 18 October 2008 –8 February 2009
 * Co-organised with the Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


 * 2007: L’Atelier de Giacometti. Collections de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti ("Giacometti's workshop. Collections from the Foundation Alberto and Annette Giacometti")
 * 15 October 2007 – 11 February 2008
 * Co-organised with the National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.


 * 2007: Alberto Giacometti, l’œuvre gravé. Collections de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti et de la Bibliothèque nationale de France ("Engravings. Collections from the Fundation Alberto and Annette Giacometti and the French National Library")
 * 19 October 2007 – 13 January 2008
 * Co-organised with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French National Library), Richelieu campus, Paris, France.


 * 2006: Alberto Giacometti
 * Touring exhibition in Japan, co-organised with the Kamakura & Hayama Museum of Modern Art (3 June – 30 July), the Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art (8 August – 1 October), and the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art (10 October – 3 December).

Publications

 * Official catalogue of the same-named exhibition.
 * Official catalogue of the Kunsthal exhibition.
 * Official catalogue.
 * Official catalogue of the Japanese touring expedition.
 * Official catalogue of the Japanese touring expedition.
 * Official catalogue of the Japanese touring expedition.

Fight against counterfeiting
The mission of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti Foundation, having  the rights from Alberto Giacometti, is to warn about counterfeiting. It is a founder member of the Association des Ayants Droit d'Artistes Décorateurs et Designers ("Decorative Arts and Designers Licensing Association"). The Foundation is also a partner of the intergovernmental Comité National Anti Contrefaçon ("National Anti-Counterfeiting Committee") (CNAC) and the Swiss platform for the Combat against Counterfeiting and Piracy.

Annette Giacometti prize
2011 saw the creation of the Prix Annette Giacometti ("Annette Giacometti prize") for artists' rights. It is an annual global prize awarded for an exhibition, work, article, Internet site, academic paper, documentar, or other initiative that promotes and protects the rights of artists over their works.

In 2010, the prize was awarded to a London-based public awareness event (at the Victoria and Albert Museum) on the problems of counterfeiting was awarded the prize.