A bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti has sold at public sale for a record-breaking £65m.
The life-size shape of a man was sold for the winning-bid in just eight minutes, after opening at a price of £12m at Sotheby's in London. Sotheby's is famous by a number of world records for auctioned works of art.
In 2007, they auctioned a limited version copy of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, written by JK Rowling. Although probable to make just £61,845, the book was bought for £2,411,827 by London fine art dealers Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox.
Walking Man, or L'Homme Qui Marche I, is well thought-out to be one of the most important works by Giacometti, a Swiss sculpter and painter who died of heart disease in 1966.
Sotheby's said the piece was sold by telephone to an unknown bidder.
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The life-size shape of a man was sold for the winning-bid in just eight minutes, after opening at a price of £12m at Sotheby's in London. Sotheby's is famous by a number of world records for auctioned works of art.
In 2007, they auctioned a limited version copy of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, written by JK Rowling. Although probable to make just £61,845, the book was bought for £2,411,827 by London fine art dealers Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox.
Walking Man, or L'Homme Qui Marche I, is well thought-out to be one of the most important works by Giacometti, a Swiss sculpter and painter who died of heart disease in 1966.
Sotheby's said the piece was sold by telephone to an unknown bidder.
