Could This Sculpture Be Worth Over £100 Million? | Fake Or Fortune?

UPDATE: After the show aired they did a restoration, removed the paint, and found Giacometti's signature. They sold it at Christie's for US$600k.

I just discovered this series and was immediately drawn in and fascinated — actually, watching several episodes in succession. This is a brilliantly conceived series, which satisfies on so many levels…all exquisitely produced and presented…Bravo! Brava! to all involved.

This series sure illustrates the cut-throat nature of this world.

In the opening, Fiona Bruce says: "But for every known masterpiece, there may be another still waiting to be discovered." While true, this series though proves that: For every known masterpiece, there may be a fake waiting to be debunked."

We need the smoking gun. The "Oh, Giacometti, you are a wonderful lover & thank you for the plaster sculpture" letter!

This isn't my "cup of tea", pun intended, because my mind just doesn't work this way. More often than not, I just don't get abstract art, particularly pieces like this. All the same, I am still interested in watching this episode because I love this show and the art mystery of each episode. Perhaps by the end I'll find that I understand this piece more than at the beginning of the episode.

Giacometti is not "taking the medium of clay and stretching it to the absolute limit." 😂Those figures are built over a wire armature.

For MY next masterpiece, I'm going to mix up some concrete and sit on it. It will be called; My Arse.

Modern art is very polarising, people either love it or hate it. Personally it leaves me cold. To spend vast amounts of money on it is the same to me as those people who buy extraordinay amounts on bottles of wine that they can never drink (and would probably taste foul anyway).

While this piece may not be an original, it is most likely a first copy piece done for the foundry for the making of sand castings for bronze. That process requires a new sand cast for every bronze, so the plaster molded piece would have been under rough conditions and since the original would have been returned to Gacometti, if their plater cast was damaged, they would have needed to repair this for the making of the new sand molds. This would mean that the repaired parts would be of a different plaster than the first casting as they would have pinned together the old and the new parts. A current sculptor that does restoration work and can comment on this is Nick Elfick.

Its like he opened up his third eye and saw things from an enlightened pov

I love it. So simple, and yet so eloquent. Glad it sold for $600,000US. 😉

I've never heard of this sculptor yet loved learning more about this brilliant artist. I love this sculpture. Simply exquisite.

Considering some people today don't even like this art, the buyers must have been considered totally wacko 100 years ago. Props to them for being so adventurous!

its interesting to watch this kind of topics.. if i bump onto original gazing head sculpture or its mold i might throw it away.. 😄 i will never think or recognize that it was an art named "the gazing head" this is learning information for me.

Juicy one! Best wishes to the family, and what a story they’ve already gotten!

How do the y know its a head? I see a square with 2 indentations.

"Are you kidding me?" Who was that very famous painter who said 'why do all the work painting a great piece when these stupid people will buy a colored canvas with your name on it?' That's not a quote but it's basically what he said.

Granddaughter and grandma looking so similar

For me, personally, a work of art must display incredible talent, skill and beauty, but above all else, evoke profound emotion...