2Alberto Giacometti ‘L’Homme Qui Marche I’ – Price: $104.3 million
On #2 we have another sculpture created by Alberto Giacometti.
‘L’Homme Qui Marche I’ (‘The Walking Man I’) is a bronze sculpture created in 1961, which was the world’s most expensive sculpture until May 2015, when another Giacometti work, ‘L’Homme Au Doigt’, supplanted it.
The sculpture depicts a lone man in mid-stride with his arms hanging at his side.
Described as ‘both a humble image of an ordinary man, and a potent symbol of humanity‘, ‘L’Homme Qui Marche I’ is one of the 6 editions plus 4 artist proofs created by the Swiss sculptor.
On February 3, 2010, edition #2 of the sculpture came up for auction at Sotheby’s auction house in London.
Sold for $103.7 million, the sculpture broke the record for a Giacometti work at auction, which was set at $27.5 million by ‘Grande Femme Debout II’ in 2008.
