List of most expensive photographs

Gursky's 99 Cent II Diptychon, the most expensive photograph ever sold.

Steichen's The Pond-Moonlight

Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète

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

1. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby's London auction.^[1] 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. ^[1]
2. Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[2]
3. Edward Weston, Nude (1925), $1,609,000, April 2008, Sotheby's New York auction.^[3]
4. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[2]
5. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[2]
6. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989)^[4], $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction.^[5]
7. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l'est (1842)^[6] $922,488, 2003, auction.
8. Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857)^[7] $838,000, 1999.
9. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987)^[8] $643,200, 2006.
10. Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948)^[9] $609,600, Sotheby's New York auction, 2006.^[10]

References

External links

• Artnet top ten most expensive photographs, April 2003
• The two most expensive Stieglitz photos, 2006, click thumbnalis to enlarge