Yes you read that correctly. This sculpture entitled “Chariot” is expected to break records and become the most expensive sculpture ever sold.
Sotherby’s auction house has not made an official statement in regards to naming the mysterious seller, only noting that the item “has been in the same distinguished private collection for more than four decades.” However, NY Post journalist Richard Johnson claims that Aleko Goulandris of a popular Greek shipping dynasty could be the mysterious seller behind this sculpture.
To break the record for a sculpture, the work would have to top the price of a previous Giacometti. His 6-foot-tall "Walking Man I" piece, which portrays a lanky man in stride, fetched $104.3 million at a Sotheby's sale in London in 2010.
"Chariot," may be considered more coveted. Many art historians consider it to be Giacometti's masterpiece, and one of the seminal works of modern art. Giacometti made only six "Chariots," and only two remain in private hands. The one that is being auctioned by Sotheby's had been with the same collector for more than 40 years thus making the sculpture more valuable.
