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Alberto Giacometti

August 2023

  • Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi

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    Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’

January 2023

  • The Giacometti chandelier pictured in the Hampstead home of John Craxton in 2007.

    Rare Giacometti chandelier bought for £250 in London set to sell for millions

    Piece acquired by English painter in antiques shop in 1960s has been confirmed as lost work by Swiss sculptor

November 2022

  • The Gare des Invalides station, on the banks of the Seine, was built for the 1900 Paris exhibition to ferry passengers to and from Versailles and Brittany.

    Former train station on banks of Seine to house Giacometti museum

    World’s largest collection of Swiss artist’s work will be housed in former Gare des Invalides from 2026

February 2022

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November 2021

  • Auctioneer Oliver Barker leads an auction of the Macklowe Collection, alongside Andy Warhol's Sixteen Jackies (centre) at Sotheby's in New York

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    Works by Warhol, Rothko and Pollock sold in most valuable auction ever held at Sotheby’s

November 2020

  • My best shot
    Real-life Giacomettis take a rainy riverside stroll: Alan Schaller's best photograph

    ‘I’d just been to a Giacometti show and was feeling inspired. I went out on to Tate Modern’s balcony – and everything aligned’

July 2018

  • Detail from I Am a Horse, Spain, 1954

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March 2018

  • Giacometti in his studio

    Institute dedicated to Giacometti set up near artist's Parisian studio

    More than 300 sculptures and many ‘debut’ artworks to go on show in Montparnasse exhibition centre opening in June

December 2017

  • A detail of Self-portrait in a Bowler Hat by Paul Cézanne, 1892.

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August 2017

  • Geoffrey Rush’s showiness disrupts Final Portrait.

    Final Portrait review – lopsided Giacometti biopic

  • A detail from one of the pencil sketches by Giacometti

    Drawings found in London antiques shop accredited to Giacometti

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  • Sutcliffe’s show consists of two video installations

    Five of the best… new art shows
    Henri Matisse and Stephen Sutcliffe: this week’s best UK exhibitions

July 2017

  • Geoffrey Rush as Giacometti

    Geoffrey Rush adds Alberto Giacometti to his roster of troubled artists

  • Benjamin Sullivan’s painting of his wife and child, Breech!, which won the 2017 BP Portrait Award

    The most intimate moments in art – portrait painters and their subjects laid bare on film and in exhibition

May 2017

  • Alberto Giacometti, Tate Modern, May 2017

    Giacometti review – master of all things thin

  • This way out of the ruins... Man Pointing by Alberto Giacometti, 1947.

    Giacometti review – a spectacular hymn to human survival

  • Caroline (1965), by Alberto Giacometti.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Giacometti, Thunderbirds and a fish-and-chip shop – the week in art

  • The Hand by Alberto Giacometti

    Five of the best… new art shows
    Giacometti, Syria and Richard Long: this week’s best UK exhibitions

April 2017

  • ‘No matter what I look at, it all surprises me’ …Giacometti in the mid 1960s.

    On the edge of madness: the terrors and genius of Alberto Giacometti

    He drank with Sartre, mocked Picasso and took silent walks with Beckett – but his work was going nowhere until a vision on Boulevard Montparnasse left him trembling. Ahead of a major Tate show, we explore the obsessions of Giacometti
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