Alberto Giacometti
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Gathering of six sculptures for first time since they were made in 1956 will be highlight of retrospective for Swiss artist
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The idea that by slapping a temporary export ban on Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture the culture minister is doing anything for art is a gross hypocrisy
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Culture minister blocks export of Femme, an influential work sold to a foreign buyer, in hope that a Briton will find £2m to buy it
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Giacometti’s unique portraits are brought into sharp focus, and the Turbine Hall’s new installation is a grower
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The artist captures his family and his lovers in all their heroic human honesty in a formidable five-star show
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National Portrait Gallery announces show day after Swiss artist’s work L’Homme au Doigt sells in New York for $141.3m, a record for a sculpture sold at auction
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Swiss photographer best known for iconic portraits of Che Guevara and Picasso dies aged 81 after a long illness
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Shows feature reimagining of Sigmund Freud’s study and Paris art collector’s flat in combination of old and new art
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The artist discusses freedom, growing up with cows and responsibilities that limit art
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Reopened Berggruen Museum will feature many of artist's paintings, alongside pieces by Matisse, Klee and Giacometti
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Maev Kennedy: She painted Margot Fonteyn, posed for Picasso and may have been a second-world-war spy. Now, 20 years after her death, the little-known British artist has her own exhibition in London
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Edvard Munch's The Scream set a new record for art auction sales at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday when it was sold for $119.9m (£74m). Here are the other nine most expensive works to go under the hammer
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In this wry reworking of David Hockney's A Bigger Splash painting, four talented houseguests respond to the scorching Californian sun in their own way
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Berlin resident and travel writer Rory MacLean chooses some of the city's most impressive museums, whether you want to taste life in the former DDR or admire works by world famous artists
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As the Profumo scandal raged, the artist Alberto Giacometti was fascinated by a French news report and dashed off some previously unknown sketches
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This new show is 'a mysterious dwelling infused with subjectivity and desire' featuring artists such as Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti and René Magritte
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Video of the 1986 disaster was locked in Florida man's basement for almost 25 years
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Masterpiece saved from Nazis in 1938 to sell alongside key works by Cézanne and Giacometti
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Sotheby's has unveiled three impressionist and modern art masterpieces which are to be auctioned at the Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, London
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Obituary: Author of a Picasso memoir and biography of Giacometti
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Art: Alberto Giacometti's fragile, stick-like figures are well known and much copied but, as these sculptures, paintings and drawings show, they still vibrate with a feverish, existential anxiety
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With high-speed trains from St Pancras to Paris only weeks away, we round up the French capital's cultural highlights.Adrian Searle kicks off this special issue with a visit to the stunning new Giacometti exhibition.
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Stare at an artwork and you're likely to find it staring provocatively back in three Paris exhibitions: the paintings of Gustave Courbet, the photographs of Edward Steichen and the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
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A former French foreign minister and the country's leading auctioneer appeared in a courtroom in Paris yesterday accused of defrauding the estate of one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors, Alberto Giacometti.
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France's former foreign minister, Roland Dumas, and the country's leading auctioneer, Jacques Tajan, are to be tried after accusations of an alleged fraud involving artworks left by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
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David Sylvester talks to Alberto Giacometti about his struggle with proportion and the difficulties of making an eye, in a translation by Paul Auster
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In 1972 Paul Auster translated a conversation between the sculptor Alberto Giacometti and the critic David Sylvester. Here he recalls how he got the job, and how he thought the translation was lost
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