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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.
The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor whose spindly bronze bust of his younger brother Diego was expected to be the priciest piece of New York ...
the first in a three-part collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation that sees work from Alberto Giacometti paired with contemporary artists in the centre’s new gallery space. The first exhibition ...
During one three-year period of creative output, Alberto Giacometti was able to fit every piece that he had made into six matchboxes, which he then carried in his pocket. Many of his plaster ...
The expansive showcase offers an in-depth exploration of the renowned 20th century Swiss artist's work, spanning sculpture, painting, graphics, and drawing. Alberto Giacometti’s fame rests on ...
Michael Peppiatt narrowly missed meeting Alberto Giacometti. As a young writer, he’d arrived in Paris in the winter of 1966 with a letter of introduction from their mutual friend Francis Bacon.
In his new publication, Giacometti in Paris: A Life, he shines the spotlight on another of his heroes, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, setting his life and work against the backdrop of ...
“The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti” (at MOMA, through Oct. 9) is a superb assembly of works by the virtuoso sculptors, whose connection is presented here as an object ...
A reconstruction of the Alberto Giacometti's parisian studio is pictured during the press preview of the Giacometti Institute in Paris, France, June 19, 2018. (credit: REUTERS/BENOIT TESSIER ...
The inaugural exhibition of the Eyal Ofer Pavilion at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA) will be the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) – one of the ...
The eye-catching bronze light-hanging with a decorative ball suspended from it was made in the mid-1940s by renowned Alberto Giacometti and ...
In 1960, British painter John Craxton was passing by the store when he recognized the unique Alberto Giacometti light fixture as a piece once owned by his late friend and benefactor Peter Watson ...