We take a look at the man behind L’Homme Qui Marche (Walking Man 1) Alberto Giacometti... 1. Alberto was born on 10 th October 1901 in an Italian-speaking area of Switzerland to a well-known ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When “Walking Man 1” sold for £65m in February to become, for a few months, the most expensive work ...

He also showed a Swiss ten-franc note bearing an image of “Walking Man 1” to the audience to illustrate the importance of Giacometti’s place in Switzerland. He said that the TMCA is one of the few art ...

The greatest Giacometti walking man pieces reside at the Maeght Foundation ... you can borrow from your friendly broker, Chuck, at 1%. LIBOR rates run around 25 basis points.

Forming what British artist Lucien Freud once described as "a whole new tribe of people," these figures of rigidly erect women and walking ... of a man at the end of his life was Giacometti's ...

image: 10 1/4 x 7 in. (26 x 17.7 cm.) sheet: 12 1/4 x 10 in. (31.1 x 25.2 cm.) ...

Alberto Giacometti's 1960 sculpture of a spindly man, "Walking Man I," sold for 65 million pounds ($104.3 million) in a Sotheby's auction, shattering the record price for a work of art at auction ...

The previous record was $104.1 million, paid for a 1905 Picasso ... Image A sculpture (R) by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti entitled “Walking Man I”, at the auction house, in London.Credit ...

The Giacometti sculpture “Walking Man I,” which sold for a record $104.3 million at Sotheby’s last month, above, was bought by the billionaire Lily Safra, according to Bloomberg News.

Yesterday a bronze sculpture was auctioned to an anonymous bidder for £65 million, which made it the most expensive piece of art ever to be sold. Yesterday a bronze sculpture was auctioned to an ...