Publications by tag: alberto giacometti

The global art market is booming. This was once again confirmed by the records set at the May 2015 auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. At the start of the week, Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O) and Pointing Man by Alberto Giacometti became the most expensive canvas and sculpture ever put up for auction. The former has been sold for almost $ 180 million, the latter, for more than $…

Sotheby's two-day sale series of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art achieved a combined total of $143.7 million, above the low estimate of $105 million. These sales on 26 and 27 February in London mark the start of the auction calendar year, for which many art lovers have high expectations.

Isabel Rawsthorne is one of those women who turned her own life into a work of art. She was married three times, was most likely spying and conducting anti-Nazi black propaganda during World War II, making coal sketches in the theater hall when Rudolf Nureyev rehearsed there, and coming up with the design of costumes for the Royal Opera. Alberto Giacometti once saw her from afar in the evening…

The Giacometti Foundation that was envisaged by Annette Giacometti, widow of the artist Alberto Giacometti, will open a new institute this summer in the Montparnasse area where Giacometti had his studio. As press says: "It will be more than museum, it's a research centre including an original reconstitution of Giacometti's studio and a venue for temporary exhibitions".

Brief tour through the most desired major exhibitions of 2017 at the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie, the Tate galleries and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Vermeer, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Renoir, de Boulogne and other artists are waiting for their visitors.