Sunday, April 4, 2010

Most Expensive Photographs

Here is a list of the most expensive photographs ever sold. Source: Wikipedia.




  1. Andreas Gursky, 99 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.




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




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




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




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




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





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





  8. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, Temple de Jupiter olympien pris de l'est (1842) $922,488, 2003, auction.




  9. Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857) $838,000, 1999.




  10. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987) $643,200, 2006.

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