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Giacometti participated in the surrealist movement before being expelled for having executed portraits. It was only later that he would find his style, pure and slender, which would make him famous. Supported by Sartre, and Pierre Matisse, son of the painter, it was in the United States that his career really began before he returned to exhibit in Europe. And despite a growing fame, Giacometti had chosen to live like an ascetic, in the service of his art.