"walking man" Giacometti put up for auction
Auction house Sotheby's will sell the sculpture "Walking man I" (L'Homme qui marche I), Alberto Giacometti, reports Reuters. Work carried out in 1961, put up for auction by the German Commerzbank AG.
Specialists Sotheby's estimated the sculpture at 19 - 29 million dollars. Thus, the "Walking Man" could break the record price for works by Giacometti, constituting 27.4 million - precisely because of such amount in May 2008 was sold to his "Great was a woman II".
In the work of Giacometti's walking man image first appeared in 1947, but the walking man I "differs in that it is one of the largest sculpture by the Italian artist - her height is 183 centimeters. As pointed out by the agency, the work of Giacometti, a size up for auction for the first time.
In 2009 at Sotheby's sold another rare work by Giacometti - "falling man". Bronze sculpture, painted by the author, bought for 19.3 million dollars.
In addition to Giacometti, at auction, which will be held Feb. 3 in London, will be sold to Commerzbank AG belonging to other art. Among the lots is worth noting now "Church in Cassone (landscape with cypress trees)" by Gustav Klimt valued at 19 million dollars, and still life by Paul Cezanne, which is scheduled for bail to 24 million dollars.
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LOT 8
PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF DRESDNER BANK AG
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
1901 - 1966
L'HOMME QUI MARCHE I
inscribed Alberto Giacometti, numbered 2 /6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
bronze
height: 183cm. 72in.
Executed in 1960 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 6 plus 4 artist's proofs. The present work was cast in 1961 and is a life-time cast.
ESTIMATE 12,000,000 - 18,000,000 GBP