Giacometti sculpture fetches record $104M

Price for ‘Walking Man I’ is highest ever paid for work of art at auction

The sculpture 'Walking Man" by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti was sold on Wed. Feb. 3rd 2010at Sotheby's in London for a price of 65,000,250 pounds ($104,327,006) and broke the record formerly held by Picasso.

What can we learn from this? Sculpting has a come-back - and - good art work is a potentially highly profitable investment. So don't miss your chance and check out sculptures that might in 10 years be worth double or 10 times of what you pay now. Compare that potential with stocks you are holding! By the way, my sculptures are made of stone - you can expect them to last a while.

With my sculptures, I express my admiration for nature in all its forms: the universe, our planet, life in all its variations, our human existence. What intrigues me is the magic found in every object, and the mystery of the origin of everything. We will probably never know to the last point how our existence started, and how and why out of a Big Bang unfolded such an incomprehensible richness of space, time, forms, and above all: life! It is a question to which we can find an answer only in spirituality. This is what for me, my sculpting is all about. (more about my motivation in my Artists Statement)

Sculptures bring definition, contrast and weight into a garden - weight literally, and also understood as meaning, or importance. Stone is hard, permanent and unyielding and finds it greatest contrast in feathery leaves and blades of grasses trembling in the moving air. Stone is complemented by water. Not rigid but flowing and moving, not hard but ever yielding, not permanent but ever changing. Water is rushing by over stones or holding still at their base. Stone, water and plants are a magic combination - add the sun and they make a fine and complete world.

The following images are links to different sculpture pages

	Participation in 'Vernal Pools' - an art show at the University of Southern Maine in the Summer 2010	New Work 2009 and 2010
	Show at Seacoast Science Center July-August 2008: "Life in the Ocean"	Show at Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, March 2008: "Organic Remnants"
	Sea creatures and other organic forms carved out of rock boulders.	Show at Kittery Art Association 2006: Sacred Places
	Sea Creatures, reliefs	Castles and Lanterns
	Fish	Zombies
	Fish reliefs	Human figure and Humanoids
	Fish Benches	Basins
	Reptiles and Frogs	Fountains
	Mammals	Sundials
	Owls	Submarine
	Classic Dolphins	Inscriptions
	Botanical Sculptures	Sculpting Basics
	Other materials	Terracotta
	about myself	watercolor paintings and other art work


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