The Metropolitan Museum ranks with the Rubin Museum as one of my favourite museums in New York, and frankly, of any location. The many and varied works are amazing. It is almost unconceivable to contemplate the wealth of objects (sculpture, paintings, jewellery etc) that the Met owns and has on display. Whilst there on a recent trip, I sketched a few such objects. I had thought I could quickly dash of a drawing or two of Giacometti sculptures. How hard could it be given the tortured and elongated forms I was trying to sketch. Well, certainly harder than I thought. I made two attempts to sketch the ‘Woman and Venice II (1956)’, with the second shown below along with the ‘Cat (1954)’.
