On Wednesday, February 3, 2010, Sotheby’s will offer for sale one of the most important sculptures by Alberto Giacometti ever to have come to the auction market: L’Homme qui marche I, a life-size work that ranks among the most arresting and iconic of the artist’s bronzes. Its appearance at auction in February will mark the first time a Giacometti figure of a walking man inthismonumentalsizehascometoauctioninover20years.* More than that, this particular piece has the distinction of being a life-time cast.

The great summer exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler promises to be a highlight in the European cultural calendar. It is devoted to the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), who, in Paris, became one of the most influential of modern artists.