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the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, setting his life and work against the backdrop of Paris where, in his hovel of a studio, he created his recognisable, now million-dollar-selling spindly ...
Rarely seen works by some of art history’s best-known artists are coming from Berlin to the National Gallery of Australia this winter.
The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti ... “But we stand by the importance of the work.” Ahead of the sale, Giacometti was positioned by the house as a safe bet.
Fondation Giacometti @ Succession Alberto Giacometti/Adagp ... said that Giacometti’s work is “showy morbidness… archaic artiness.” That’s one way of looking at it.
The season’s top lot provoked gasps at Sotheby’s when it failed to sell — but there are worrying implications beyond the high-end art market ...
The U.K. is fighting to keep a unique bronze chandelier by Alberto Giacometti within ... is an exceptional realization of Giacometti’s work in the decorative arts and is the only known U.K ...
He is one of the most well known sculptors in the world and starting this Saturday, you can see some of his work at the Nelson Atkins Museum. His name is Alberto Giacometti, and he is considered ...
In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets ... does reflect something essential in Giacometti’s work itself: its uncanny ability to capture ...
“Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through February 12. This overview of the artist’s life and work carefully constructs a narrative that ...
The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor ... for 1955’s “Large Thin Head”—and the work failed to sell at all. The sculpture’s defeat ...