A known smasher of auction records, Giacometti is the only sculptor whose work has sold for over $100 million at auction. At Christie's in 2015, his 1947 sculpture “L'homme au doigt” sold for $141.3 million, setting a record as the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.29 Oct 2020
How much is a sculpture worth?
You can easily find small bronze statues and figurines for under $1,000 and even for as low as $500. On the other side of the spectrum, 1:1 bronze statues of animals and life-size human replicas usually cost thousands of dollars, and the average ranges between $4,000 to $10,000.25 Jun 2020
What is the most expensive statue?
L'Homme au Doigt
How much was L Homme au doigt sold for?
L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, that became the most expensive sculpture ever when it sold for US$141.3 million on 11 May 2015.
What did Giacometti use to make sculptures?
David Sylvester in his book Looking at Giacometti reported on how the artist worked when he made sculptures from memory. He would build up and then cut back to scratch, build again, working fast, demolishing completely, then go at it again. But there would be no enormous change in the image created each time.5 Jun 2017
How do you make a Giacometti sculpture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7XH9dLYPMc
How would you describe Giacometti sculpture?
After World War II, Giacometti created his most famous sculptures: his extremely tall and slender figurines. These sculptures were subject to his individual viewing experience—between an imaginary yet real, a tangible yet inaccessible space.
What happened to Giacometti?
Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease (pericarditis) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents.
What themes did Giacometti explore?
Giacometti's work of the 1930s represents probably the most important contribution to Surrealist sculpture. In an effort to explore themes derived from Freudian psychoanalysis, like sexuality, obsession and trauma, he developed a variety of different sculptural objects.1 Jun 2011
Why did Giacometti create his sculptures?
He wanted to depict figures in such a way as to capture a palpable sense of spatial distance, so that we, as viewers, might share in the artist's own sense of distance from his model, or from the encounter that inspired the work.1 Jun 2011