For Tasos Nyfadopoulos, the young sculptor behind the work, it is the first public tribute to the thousands of suicides the crisis has left in its wake.
According to the sculptor, Blind Light, as the installation was called, undermined what architecture ought to do: "Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are.
On the following day a permanent commemoration of poem and poet, a slate plaque carved by the sculptor Martin Jennings, will be unveiled at King's Cross station in London.
Miliband is addressing the great and the good of the arts world: there's film director Stephen Frears, novelist Hanif Kureishi, sculptor Anish Kapoor, artistic director Jude Kelly.
The sculptor advises his models not to smile, but the former New York Giants player wanted to show off his signature feature and was not for budging: "I presented a unique challenge, cause I told him I wanted to smile.
She met another British sculptor in Italy, John Skeaping, and after a short love affair married him in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
Standing on the hotel's seafront porch Louis Mueller, an American sculptor, takes in the view.
British painter Sheila Girling, who died on 14 February, was married for 63 years to sculptor Anthony Caro.
Cornelia Parker, sculptor I suppose you've got to say yes, because you can't stop it really.
Caro was knighted in 1987 and in 2000 was the first British sculptor since Henry Moore to receive the Order of Merit.
Other works that attracted large sums include those of the New York-based artist Manoucher Yektai and sculptor Parviz Tanavoli, as well as pieces by Bahman Mohassess and Aydin Aghdashloo.
