Alberto Giacometti’s ‘Walking Man I’ Sells for a Record-Breaking $104,327,006 at Sotheby’s

Auctioneer Henry Wyndam sells the sculpture 'Walking Man I' or 'L'Homme qui marche I', by Alberto Giacometti, at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, Wednesday Feb. 3, 2010. The life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold at the London auction for (US$104 million). Sotheby's says the sale set a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, and in only eight minutes. AP Photo / Anthony Devlin.

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).

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