Giacometti's Walking Man
1961 · Work
A man whittled almost to nothing strides through empty space — Giacometti's bronze answer to a century that had seen what people could be reduced to. L'Homme qui marche became the face of existentialism, the figure on the Swiss 100-franc note, and, in 2010, briefly the most expensive sculpture ever sold.
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