Thank You Dahlings!

The bods at Scottish Round Up are now dishing out the awards based on nominations submitted recently. This blog came in at a very respectable number six on the list of personal/general blogs and I’d like to kindly thank those of you who voted/nominated.

Thank you also to Duncan and all the contributors there who do the weekly round up on which TBLFP has regularly featured.

Art For Art’s Sake?

This is L’Homme Qui Marche (I Walking Man I). It is a bronze sculpture created by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in 1961

It depicts a lone man in mid-stride with his arms hanging at his side. The piece is described as “both a humble image of an ordinary man, and a potent symbol of humanity”

It had recently been the property of Dresdner Bank in Germany who were taken over by Commerzbank in 2009.

It sold at auction yesterday for £58 million to an anonymous telephone bidder.

Including the buyer’s premium the total was nearer £65 million.

Pretty damned potent but not too humble if you ask me!