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Feb. 3 2010 - 5:33 pm | 100 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

World art auction record broken by emaciated statue

By JEN DOLL

Photograph of Alberto Giacometti by Henri Cart...

Could this be a signifier of the end of the recession—or simply an inevitable (albeit artistic) low point in our culture’s ongoing obsession with thin?

Per the New York Times,

One of Alberto Giacometti’s best-loved bronzes, “Walking Man I,” broke the world record price for a work of art at auction, selling to an unidentified telephone bidder for $92.5 million, or $104.3 million with fees at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday night.

Either way, I’m going to take it as a good sign, even if the waifish work was purchased by one oligarch or another. And I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of hungry.

 
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    11:02 am on 02/08/10
    rob p
    rob p

    I think it’s interesting how the “real” person in both the photo here and the one in the link for Arts Beat is in blurred motion. Both photographers trying to achieve the look / affectation?

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