Showing posts with label Auction prices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auction prices. Show all posts

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