Giacometti and the factory of the armoured man: identity, fear and power in Latin America
In February 2010, L’Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold at Sotheby’s in London for 104 million dollars, becoming the most expensive work of art ever auctioned. The sculpture, a 183-centimetre bronze cast in the Swiss canton of Graubünden sixteen years after the end of the Second World War, depicted a man … CONTINUE READING →