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The debacle involving an Alberto Giacometti statue left art insiders stunned and raised concerns about the high-end art ...
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Alberto Giacometti’s $70 million bronze head failed to sell at Sotheby’s, shaking confidence in the high-end art market.
Instead, wary collectors at Sotheby’s on Tuesday were spooked by the house’s $70 million asking price for 1955’s “Large Thin ...
The season’s top lot provoked gasps at Sotheby’s when it failed to sell — but there are worrying implications beyond the high ...
A 1955 bronze bust by Alberto Giacometti that carried a $70 million failed to find a buyer at Sotheby's modern evening ...
Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s ...
Sotheby’s Modern evening sale in New York brought in $152m ($186.4m with fees) on Tuesday, 13 May, far below the auction ...
Works from the collections of two influential gallerists helped to offset an unsold Giacometti at Sotheby’s marquee New York ...
In a countersuit stand-off, the two parties are broadening the scope of their allegations beyond the disputed sculpture ...
David Geffen and Justin Sun’s unusually public dispute over ownership of a Giacometti sculpture valued at tens of millions of ...
The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor whose spindly bronze bust of his younger brother Diego was expected to be the priciest piece of New York ...