Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter and printmaker born in 1901 in Switzerland. He came from an artistic family and had an interest in art from a young age. One of his most famous and expensive sculptures was L’Homme qui marche I, of which there were two versions, with the second sculpture selling for a record price. He is known for his elongated, thin figures.

1. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter,
draughtsman, and printmaker.
He was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and raised in an
artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter. Alberto was
the eldest of four children and had an interest in art from an early age.
L’Homme qui marche I (The Walking
Man I, lit. The Man who Walks I) had
2 different sculptures, the second
sculpture is the most expensive
sculpture.
Grande tête minceis a
bronze sculpture by Alberto
Giacometti. The work was
conceived in 1954 and cast the
following year. Auctioned in
2010, Grande tête mince
became one of the most
valuable sculptures ever sold
when it fetched $53.3 million.

2. Alexander Milne Calder
Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 – June 4, 1923) was an American sculptor best
known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander
Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "Sandy" Calder, would become significant sculptors
in the 20th century.

3. William Bloye
William James Bloye (1890–6 June 1975) was an Englishsculptor, active in Birmingham
either side of World War II.
He studied, and later, taught at the Birmingham School of Art (his training was interrupted by
World War I, when he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1915 to 1917; he was
eventually succeeded at Birmingham by John Bridgeman), where his pupils included Gordon
Herickx, Roy Kitchin, Raymond Mason, John Poole and Ian Walters. He also studied stone-
carving and letter cutting under Eric Gill around 1921.

4. Reginald E. Beauchamp
Reginald E. Beauchamp (Dec. 8, 1910 – Dec. 20, 2000) was an American sculptor whose
works include Penny Franklin (1971), Whispering Bells of Freedom (1976), and a bust of
Connie Mack that sits in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Beauchamp was born in London and immigrated to the United States at age 2, living with his
family for five years in Rensselaer, New York, before settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He worked as the director of special events and then the head of public relations and
personnel at the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper from 1945 to 1975. He was also involved in
various community groups, including Rotary International, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the
Poor Richard Club, and the Philadelphia Public Relations Association, which named him the
first member of its hall of fame in 1972

5. César Baldaccini
César Baldaccini (1 January 1921 in Marseille - 6 December 1998 in Paris), usually called
César was a noted Frenchsculptor.
César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions
(compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam
sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects.
He was a French sculptor, born in 1921 of Italian parents in the working class neighbourhood
of la Belle-de-Mai in Marseilles. His father was a cooper and bar owner. His full name was
César Baldaccini, but he is usually known simply as César. After studying at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, Marseilles (1935-9) he went on to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1943-8).
He began making sculptures by welding together pieces of scrap metal in 1952 and first made
his reputation with solid welded sculptures of insects, various kinds of animals, nudes, etc.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, 1954.
His early work used soldered and welded metal as well as junk materials, and by 1960 César
was considered one of France's leading sculptors. In that year, on a visit to a scrap merchant
in search of metal, he saw a hydraulic crushing machine in operation, and decided to
experiment with it in his sculpture. He astonished his followers by showing three crushed
cars at a Paris exhibition. It was for these 'Compressions' that César became renowned. César
selected particular cars for crushing, mixing elements from differently coloured vehicles. In
this way he could control the surface pattern and colour scheme of the piece.
Later the same year he joined the Nouveaux Réalistes (New Realists) - Arman, Klein,
Raysse, Tinguely, Pierre Restany and others who found their inspiration in urban life.

6. Donald Judd
Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist
associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed). In his work, Judd
sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately
achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. It created an
outpouring of seemingly effervescent works that defied the term "minimalism". Nevertheless,
he is generally considered the leading international exponent of "minimalism," and its most
important theoretician through such seminal writings such as "Specific Objects" (1964).
Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He served in the Army from 1946-1947 as an
engineer and in 1948 began his studies in philosophy at the College of William and Mary,
later transferring to Columbia University School of General Studies. At Columbia, he earned
a degree in philosophy and worked towards a master's in art history under Rudolf Wittkower
and Meyer Shapiro. Also at Columbia he attended night classes at the Art Students League of
New York. He supported himself by writing art criticism for major American art magazines
between 1959 and 1965. In 1968 Judd bought a five-story cast-iron building, designed by
Nicholas Whyte in 1870, at 101 Spring Street for under $70,000, serving as his New York
residence and studio. Over the next 25 years, Judd renovated the building floor by floor,
sometimes installing works he purchased or commissioned from other artists.