Thursday, February 04, 2010

You can have one of my paintings for a lot less

imageHow much would you be prepared to pay for this statue?

Let me tell you first of all it is six-foot bronze figure by Alberto Giacometti, the first of a series by the artist.

L’Homme Qui Marche I fetched £65m at auction in a boisterous sale of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby’s headquarters in London last night.

Yes, you read that correct, it sold for the equivalent of 75,544,000 Euros to an anonymous telephone bidder who was in competition with nine others during the sale.

As one Times newspaper reader quipped, “I heard that Tony Blair bought it for his desk.... “

Actually, the truth is, it is going to look very nice in my garden.

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