Editing Alberto Giacometti (section)

=== Notable sales ===
[[File:E Wehrmann - Alberto Giacomett in Venedig (1962) cropped.jpg|thumb|Alberto Giacometti at the 31st Venice Biennale, 1962]]
According to record Giacometti has sold the two [[List of most expensive sculptures|most expensive sculptures]] in history.

In November 2000 a Giacometti bronze, ''Grande Femme Debout I'', sold for [[United States dollar|$]]14.3 million.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,395302,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Art record Picasso painting goes for £39m at auction | date=10 November 2000 | access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref> ''Grande Femme Debout II'' was bought by the [[Gagosian Gallery]] for $27.4 million at [[Christie's]] auction in New York City on 6 May 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512060740/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A|url-status=dead|title=Afp.google.com, Monet fetches record price at New York auction|archive-date=12 May 2008|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref>

''[[L'Homme qui marche I]]'', a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man, became one of the most expensive works of art, and at the time was the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction. It was in February 2010, when it sold for £65 million (US$104.3 million) at [[Sotheby's]], London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8497287.stm|title=Sculpture fetches £65m at auction|date=5 February 2010|access-date=16 September 2019|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36031|title=Alberto Giacometti's Walking Man I Sells for a Record-Breaking $104,327,006 at Sotheby's|website=artdaily.com|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref> ''[[Grande tête mince]]'', a large bronze bust, sold for $53.3 million just three months later.
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''[[L'Homme au doigt]]'' (''Pointing Man'') sold for $126 million (£81,314,455.32), or $141.3 million with fees, in Christie's May 2015, "Looking Forward to the Past" sale in New York City. The work had been in the same private collection for 45 years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Artworks Top $100 Million Each at Christie's Sale (Artsbeat blog)|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/two-art-works-top-100-million-each-at-christies-sale/|first1=Scott | last1=Reyburn |access-date=12 May 2015|newspaper=New York Times|date=11 May 2015}}</ref> As of now it is the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.

After being showcased on the BBC programme ''[[Fake or Fortune]]'', a plaster sculpture, titled ''Gazing Head'', sold in 2019 for half a million pounds.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/22/worthless-sculpture-bbcs-fake-fortune-actually-priceless-giacometti/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/22/worthless-sculpture-bbcs-fake-fortune-actually-priceless-giacometti/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title='Worthless' sculpture from BBC's Fake or Fortune proves to be authentic Giacometti worth more than £500,000|first=Dalya|last=Alberge|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=23 August 2019|access-date=16 September 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In April 2021, Giacometti's small-scale bronze sculpture, Nu debout II (1953), was sold from a Japanese private collection and went for £1.5 million ($2 million), against an estimate of £800,000 ($1.1 million).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Villa|first=Angelica|date=15 April 2021|title=$34.2 M. Phillips London Sale Brings Tunji Adeniyi-Jones Record and Air of Optimism|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/phillips-london-tunji-adenjiyi-jones-jean-dubuffet-results-1234589900/|access-date=17 April 2021|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref>