The 10 Most Expensive Alberto Giacometti Works Ever Sold at Auction

Coarse skin, matchstick-thin, and oozing existential dread—the signature of Alberto Giacometti is unmistakable. Born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901, Giacometti captivated the interest and imagination of his artistic peers and patrons with a career of remarkable transformation: from his early Surrealist experiments to his explorations of ancient Egyptian-inspired forms, to the postwar period when isolation, anxiety, and human fragility came to define his spindly cast of figures.“T