Saturday, 22 October 2011

List of the Highest Prices Paid for Photographs


This is a list of the highest prices paid for photographs (in US dollars unless otherwise stated).
1. Cindy Sherman,


  Untitled #96 (1981), $3,890,500, May 2011, Christie's New York.

2. Andreas Gursky99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby's London auction.
A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby's in May 2006.

3. Edward Steichen,

The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

4. Unknown photographer,

  Billy the Kid (1879–80), tintype portrait, $2,300,000, June 2011, Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction.

5. Dmitry Medvedev,

  Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009), $1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.

6.Edward Weston,
  Nude (1925), $1,609,000, April 2008, Sotheby's New York auction.

7. Alfred StieglitzGeorgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

8. Alfred StieglitzGeorgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

9. Richard Prince,




  Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction.

10. Richard Avedon,




  Dovima with elephants (1955), $1,151,976, November 2010, Christie's Paris auction

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