Showing posts with label Giacometti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giacometti. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Auction sale: Giacometti sets sale record £65m sculpture

A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction when it fetched £65m ($104.3m) at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday night.

The sculpture, “L’Homme qui marche I”, soared over its £12m-£18m estimate and beat the record held by Picasso’s painting “Garçon à la pipe”, which sold for $104.2m at Sotheby’s New York in May 2004.

The buyer was obviously... me... but keep it for yourself.
More info on: www.sothebys.com

Monday, December 31, 2007

Giacometti's exhibition in Atelier Giacometti in Paris


The Centre Pompidou is presenting until 13th January 2008, in collaboration with the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in Paris, an original retrospective of Alberto Giacometti's works (1901–1966).


For the first time, all the faces of the artist will be explored, illustrated by rare works, that the general public do not often have the chance to see such as the fragments of the walls of his three main studios in Paris, Stampa and Maloja (Switzerland). Indeed all the moments of his life are examined in this rare exhibition.


Giacometti is known for the XXth century's silhouette he created: lanky, tragic and hungry for ideal. This is one of the best retrospective not to be missed if you are in Paris.