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Giacometti sculpture fetches £65m at Sotheby’s auction
Share A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at auction in London for the world record price of £65,001,250. It took just eight minutes for bidders to reach the hammer price after L’Homme Qui Marche I opened at £12m at Sotheby’s auction house. Sotheby’s said it was the most expensive work... »
Record prices mark art sale boom
Share A sale of Impressionist and Modern Art fetched more than than $180m (£108m) at an auction house in New York, marking an unexpected boom in the market. Top of the lots was a bronze sculpture by Italian artist Alberto Giacometti which fetched more than $19m (£11.4), soaring above a $12m (£7.2m) estimate. Artwork by Picasso and... »






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