In 1988, Christie’s sold an artist’s proof of Giacometti’s L’Homme qui marche for $5.87 million US to a collector from Japan. The bronze had been cast after the artist’s death in 1966, and is considered less desirable than a lifetime cast, such as the example sold this week. Nonetheless, the price was a record for the artist, and put him in a select group of about half a dozen of the most expensive modern artists at auction — a group that included Picasso, Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and Roy Liechtenstein. Read more at www.vancouversun.com |
