Crypto Tycoon Justin Sun Buys $78 M. Giacometti at Sotheby’s

On Tuesday, Justin Sun, the Hong Kong-based CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Tron, said that he purchased Alberto Giacometti’s Le Nez (1947) for $78.4 million during Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection in New York, which saw 35 lots bring in a staggering $676 million.
The Giacometti sculpture features a figure with an elongated nose that is suspended from a wire in an open steel cage. It had been held by the Macklowes for nearly 3 decades before hitting the auction block yest