![]() A floor lamp by Alberto sold for $504,000, double the top range of its estimate of $150,000 to $250,000.Īccording to Giacometti’s foundation, more than half of Alberto’s decorative work was lighting, including lamps and sconces. Last December, a Christie’s sale of home items designed by Alberto and Diego Giacometti saw eight out of the 10 items sell for above their estimates. They have also commanded high prices at auction. Often featured in publications like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and patronized by the fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy, the Giacometti home goods sold well to a loyal clientele. “Objects interest me hardly any less than sculpture, and there is a point at which the two touch,” he once said. These additional household goods were made starting in 1929, and done in collaboration with the highly influential interior designer Jean Michel Frank. ![]() In a statement, Christie’s said this work “gave the elder Giacometti financial freedom to pursue his more radical artistic agenda.” In addition to Giacometti’s work as a sculptor, the artist worked with his brother Diego to produce decorative household objects and furniture pieces. The works are easily recognizable, too, often featuring small, slender figures whose skin resembles harshly hewed rock.” It is currently the single most expensive sculpture to be sold at auction.ĪRTnews associate editor Tessa Solomon previously wrote about how Giacometti’s prices “are preceded by his towering legacy as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His 1947 bronze piece, L’Homme au Doigt (The Man with the Finger), sold in 2015 for $141.3 million. Bespoke Sculptural plaster fixture in the Jean Michel Frank. The value of sculptures by Giacometti are among the priciest on the market. This Giacometti Chandelier Sold For Over 2 Million Architectural Digest Plaster Light. This was due to the chandelier’s suspended ball, which only appears elsewhere in Giacometti’s early sculpture La Boule suspendue (1922). In 2021, the Fondation Giacometti in Paris authenticated the lighting fixture - and even deemed it one of the most significant entries in the sculptor’s design career. cultural journal, for two years before it was placed in storage and eventually found its way to a London antique shop.Įnglish painter John Craxton bought the chandelier from the antique shop in the 1960s and displayed it in his home in Hampstead, London, for 50 years. French Modern Neoclassical Plaster Chandelier, Jean Michel Frank and Giacometti H 30 in. ![]() It first hung in the offices of Horizon, a now-defunct U.K. US Feds File Forfeiture Complaint for Picasso Drawing Sold by Christie's to 1MDB Lawyer Jasmine Loo Ai Swan for $1.3MĪccording to the Guardian, the chandelier was likely commissioned in 1946 or 1947 by Giacometti’s late friend, the art collector Peter Watson. ![]()
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