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1998
 
    
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England       
2006
 
    
A team from the University of Tübingen find a tiny figurine of a mammoth, at that time the earliest known piece of European figurative sculpture       
Figurine of a mammoth, carved from mammoth ivory
University of Tubingen

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2008
 
    
Archaeologists from Tübingen discover the Hohle Fels Venus, about 38,000 years old and the earliest known figurative sculpture in Europe       
The Venus figurine found in the Hohle Fels cave
University of Tubingen

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2010  February 3
 
    
A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, L'Homme qui marche, sets a new auction record for a work of art at £65 million (US$103.7 million)