Lifestyle | Alberto Giacometti Giacometti Sculpture Sells for Record $104.3M 'Walking Man I' squeaks by Picasso's record price By Nick McMaster Posted Feb 3, 2010 3:55 PM CST Copied Sculptures by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and paintings by Francis Bacon (1909-1992) are on display in the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, Thursday Aug. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Keystone, Georgios Kefalas) Alberto Giacometti's "Walking Man I" sculpture has sold at Sotheby's for $104.3 million, breaking the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The previous record-holder was Picasso's "Boy With a Pipe," which sold for $104.2 million 6 years ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. The sale of Giacometti's 1960 work, a 6-foot-tall bronze, could signal a resurgence for sluggish art sales. Read These Next Sienna proves herself to be a very, very good dog. Three hikers jumped into a waterfall and never resurfaced. America has lost a '60s teen idol. Millions of student loan borrowers could see their paychecks docked. Report an error