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...Christie’s will be offering in London on October 13 selections from the $50mn Sam Josefowitz (1921-2015) collection, ranging from Assyrian antiquities to pieces by Diego Giacometti....
...Another star on offer is a 1951 painted bronze bust by Alberto Giacometti of his brother, Diego (£4mn-£6mn)....
...time she saw the Alberto Giacometti sculpture titled “Woman with Her Throat Cut”....
...Rimbaud had acquired a scandalous reputation in Paris, partly due to his tempestuous relationship with a married man, the poet Paul Verlaine....
...The haul crossed the $1bn mark around halfway through the event with the sale of Alberto Giacometti’s bronze nude standing female figure “Femme de Venise III” for $25mn....
...Much of the excitement of the Paul Allen auction was inevitable....
...The collection features artworks from Jasper Johns, Alberto Giacometti, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, David Hockney and Yayoi Kusama....
...Today, the earnest, passionate chiaroscuro vision of Giacometti and his non-figurative brethren are as relevant as they have ever been....
...It will be a while before an art collection can rival that of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, which made a total of $1.6bn across two auctions at Christie’s last week....
...“When he was not in his studio, Picasso would host art dealers from Paris, and friends such as the artists Georges Braque, Élie Lascaux and Giacometti....
...Relationships built along the way have helped Luxembourg present a stellar cast of artists, including Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Alberto Burri, René Magritte and — Luxembourg’s sweet spot — the Viennese...
...Since the ’30s, it’s been a hub for artists and writers including Balthus, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and today residents include the Giacometti Foundation and the great American textile artist...
...Giacometti turned his maquettes into necklaces to pay the rent at the beginning of his career. Sophia Vari made miniature versions of her sculptures in plasticine to pass the time on distant flights....
...The exhibition at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, near Nice in the south of France, entitled The Giacomettis: A Family of Creators celebrates five of this Swiss family: father Giovanni, cousin...
...The mood is nostalgic yet hopeful, and Weiss’s portraits of surrealism’s ageing luminaries as weathered, enduring, vulnerable old men — Giacometti, Breton — are unforgettable....
...Arik Levy Sculpture Park, 06570 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, ariklevysculpturepark.com...
...If I mention that there are works here by Marinetti, Balla, Brancusi, Giacometti, Rivera, Indiana, Ruscha, Hockney, Christo, Vasarely, Judd and Gursky, I’d still only be scratching the surface....
...It is almost opposite the Maeght Foundation — the first private foundation in France that is celebrated for its plentiful Mirós, Calders and Giacomettis, as well as the pool containing a mosaic work by Georges...
...Braque is “light like a bird, and not like a feather”, his biographer Alex Danchev wrote, quoting Paul Valéry....
...A searing yellow phallic Franz West, entitled “Faux Pas”, occupies one clearing; in another, Paul Matisse has constructed a “Meditation Bell”, an astonishing, lingering sound piece that can compete with...
...The afternoon of October 4 2014 was peculiarly bright in London and too fine to be stood for hours sweating with nerves in a navy wool suit, but Paul Austin likes to look smart when he delivers the blow....
...in eye-catching locations around the house, such as a bright-pink Giant Mockbat – an 80cm-tall bat sofubi with stumpy wings and a long tongue, designed by San Diego-based artist Paulkaiju, also known as Paul...
...The movement’s founders, poets André Breton and Paul Éluard, wanted to access a deeper reality by trying to bypass the intellect, tapping into dream states and the irrational part of the psyche....
...Early sculptures were heavily influenced by Cycladic figurines, and the works of Giacometti, whom he encountered when he left Athens for Paris in 1954....
...Built between 1912 and 1914 by decorative designer Paul Follot, who then lived there, the mansion’s accoutrements include ornate window cornices, mosaic floors embedded with gilt, patterned wallpapers, painted...
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