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Link: http://www.fondation-maeght.com

SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE – Today he is really worth a lot: with his Walking man, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) became the most expensive artist of the XXth century when the sculpture sold for 58 million £, i.e. 66 million € at Sotheby’s in London on 3 February 2010. Before meeting this posthumous glory, Giacometti «survived» in hotel rooms and small workshops. Those who believed in him then can be defined as visionaries, such as art dealer and collector Aimé Maeght, who enjoyed a twenty-year long friendship with the artist. We can gauge its extent in this large summer retrospective: 170 works and among them two other versions of Man walking , the only ones Giacometti painted, as well as a great number of those «long and slender» statues he created after 1946 and which are inextricably associated to his name. But there are also paintings, drawings, painted plasters, prints or letters, most of them from the collection of the Maeght family.
•Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966 at the Fondation Maeght from 27 June to 31 October 2010.