Tuesday 15 November 2011

Expensive photographs

Andreas Gursky, Rhine II, 1999. Sold for $4.3 million at Christie's, New York, 8 November 2011
The sale of Gursky's Rhine II, for $4,338,500 has set a new record for a photograph sold at auction. It is good to know that one of the edition of 6 photographs is in the collection of Tate Modern - presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery in 2000.
Below are some more expensive photographs.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96, 1981. Sold for $3.9 million at Christie's, New York, May 2011
Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 2001-2. Sold for $3.4 million at Sotheby's, 14 November, 2007
Edward Steichen, The Pond - Moonlight, 1904. Sold for $2.9 million at Sotheby's, New York, February 2006
Anon, Billy the Kid, 1879-80. Sold for $2.3 million at Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction, June 2011
Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk , 2009. Sold for $1.75 million in St Petersburg, January 2010
Edward Weston, Nude, 1925. Sold for $1.6 million at Sotheby's, New York, April 2008
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe Nude, 1919. Sold for $1.36 million at Sotheby's New York, February 2006
Edward Weston, Nautilus, 1927. Sold for $1.08 million at Sotheby's, New York, April 2010

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