For more than two decades, in a situation well-documented by Marc Spiegler in “The Giacometti Legacy: A Struggle for Control” (ARTnews, October 2004), the legacy of the Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti was mired in controversy. The market had been flooded with forgeries. Scandals and lawsuits abounded, not only between the French and Swiss heirs, but also among the French experts, with two separate French organizations dedicated to Giacometti—an association and a foundation. However, most of these contentious issues were largely resolved when Catherine Grenier, the former deputy director of the Musée national d’art moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, took over as director of the Giacometti Foundation last March.
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