During a market downturn in 2010, billionaire Lily Safra paid $103.4 million for Giacometti’s 1961 bronze, “Walking Man I,” at Sotheby’s London—a move later credited by market watchers ...

According to Genet, Giacometti's work always reflected the 'individual wound that each person carries within him'. In the late 1940s, he made several sculptures on the subject of the walking man ...

Instead, Giacometti proposed an arrangement that brought together three of his signature motifs: the standing woman, the walking man, and the omniscient head. He estimated they would be a mere ...

Iconic sculptures by Giacometti including Walking Man I (1960) and The Cage (1950) will be on display at the Barbican during the three exhibitions. Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in a ...

Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall ... These sculptures — with stripped-down titles like “Standing Woman” and “Walking Man” — have been collected by major museums around ...

Giacometti adapted the wide gait of “Walking Man I” and the figures of “Three Men Walking” from statues of Egyptian pharaohs and August Rodin’s “The Walking Man,” although their ...

Celebrated works by Giacometti will be on show, including Walking Man (1960). The exhibitions will be presented in a newly created space—formerly the home of the Barbican Brasserie restaurant ...

Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked.