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Giacometti's sculpture set a record sale at Sotheby's and for public auction as the sculpture sold to an anonymous buyer, who bid over the phone, for .......$104,327,006.  The buyer (and competitive bidders) consider the offering to be a once in a lifetime opportunity! Giacometti, who lived 1901 to 1966, was a key player in surrealism and son of the painter Giovanni Giacometti. Sotheby's indicated that bidding was brisk due to the strong demand for quality works of impressionist and modern art.

Other works that sold...

      Thomas Keller                                                     Angel of Egypt Artist Thomas Keller  began creating art as the result of an spiritual awakening in 2001. Prior to that time he was a construction contractor and has continued to be so. When he began painting he felt like a river of creativity was flooding through him and had to be released. Thomas Keller's paintings are mostly pastels, a medium he was drawn to naturally. Thousands of crystals of pure color comprise pastels so a painting is a crystal field reflecting light.

He then was drawn to free sculpt...