A $70 M. Giacometti Bust Fails to Sell at Sotheby’s Modern Sale
A 1955 bronze bust by Alberto Giacometti that carried a $70 million failed to find a buyer at Sotheby’s modern evening auction in New York on Tuesday.The cover lot for the sale’s online page, the Giacometti reportedly came from the estate of real estate magnate Sheldon Solow, who died in 2020. Shown at the 1956 Venice Biennale, the sculpture was previously owned by Marguerite and Aimé Maeght, who had it on view in their eponymous foundation in southern France.Auctioneer Oliver
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