She also broke with Surrealism, pursuing her interest in phenomenology, and in particular in philosophers Edmund Husserl[2] and Martin Heidegger.[5] During the late 1930s, she painted a portrait of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti; she later recounted that her model confessed to her that his borrowings from African art, although discussed by critics, were only coincidental, and had to do with the fact that primitivism was in fashion.[6]