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Someone at the Barbican has smelled an opportunity. The old brasserie on level two of the Brutalist complex in the City of London is now an art gallery, inaugurated by this “encounter” between ...
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 ...
Amongst the works on display are iconic pieces by Giacometti such as Walking Woman I (1932) and Walking Man I (1960), as well as the tabletop sculpture The Glade (Composition with nine figures) (1950) ...
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.
Inspired by Giacometti’s ‘Walking Woman I’ (1932) and his investigations into the moving human figure, the suggestion of movement through the paired disembodied legs recalls the iconography ...
The Barbican has opened Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha, the first in a three-part collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation that sees work from Alberto Giacometti paired with contemporary ...
What followed these words is a fascinating account of Giacometti’s thoughts on sculpture; a testimony of his relentless pursuit to express truth in his work in a manner that is not limited to mere ...