February 3, 2010

This Giacometti sculpture, “L’Homme qui marche I” or “Walking Man 1″ has walked into the record books, selling at auction for $104.3 million. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP/Getty Images)

As The Wall Street Journal put it:

Alberto Giacometti’s 1960 sculpture of a spindly man, “Walking Man I,” sold for 65 million pounds ($104.3 million) in a Sotheby’s auction, shattering the record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market.

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