LONDON.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s
L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 / $104,327,006
/€74,185,983 becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at
auction. The sale of that work was swiftly followed by that of
Gustav Klimt’s Kirche in Cassone, which made £26,921,250 / $43,208,606/
€30,725,246 – a new record price for a landscape by the artist. These
two works headlined a sale that realised a record-breaking total of £146,828,350
/ $235,659,502 / €167,575,324 – making it the highest value sale ever staged in
London. (Pre-sale estimate for the sale was £69,060,000-102,130,000).