Most expensive photo ever sold?

9 years 3 weeks ago #428851 by Little Kate
From what I'm reading, the media doesn't report on all the private sales that take place.  Recently we saw Peter Liks photo that sold for $6.4 million.  Is that the most expensive single photo ever sold?


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9 years 3 weeks ago #428854 by Joves
I believe that that Rhineland River photo sold for an idiotic price above that. I cannot remember. Or it is more like do not want to remember such abject insanity.


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9 years 3 weeks ago #428888 by garyrhook

Joves wrote: I believe that that Rhineland River photo sold for an idiotic price above that. I cannot remember. Or it is more like do not want to remember such abject insanity.


No, it sold for $4.3 million. Although the Lik sale has apparently become questionable.


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9 years 3 weeks ago #428948 by Crazyguy
Who knows with these sort of sales which is legit.  

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9 years 3 weeks ago #429002 by Don Fischer
I'd like to see what a $6M photo looks like, I saw the Rhineland river one and it absolutely sucked! Had I taken that photo I'd have deleted it!


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9 years 3 weeks ago #429029 by icepics
An auction house or dealer will list and/or announce upcoming auctions and the estimated price range that's expected for the bidding. After the auction usually it'll show the amount of the highest bid that was the final selling price. If it's a significant auction it'll probably be announced publicly, for other auctions the realized prices will usually be listed on the auction website. Here's the listing for the Gursky.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/andreas-gursky-rhein-ii-5496716-details.aspx   

Sometimes a photographer or artist may be represented by an agency so that might provide a way to verify a selling price. With private sales like ones done by Peter Lik in his own galleries there don't seem to be auctions held. I don't know if there's any way to confirm a price if the sale is kept private.  

Sharon
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9 years 3 weeks ago #429068 by Roger Lang
Good link icepics 


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9 years 3 weeks ago #429080 by garyrhook

Don Fischer wrote: I'd like to see what a $6M photo looks like, I saw the Rhineland river one and it absolutely sucked! Had I taken that photo I'd have deleted it!


Well, it's certainly not Scottish.


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9 years 3 weeks ago #429093 by Scotty

garyrhook wrote:

Joves wrote: I believe that that Rhineland River photo sold for an idiotic price above that. I cannot remember. Or it is more like do not want to remember such abject insanity.


No, it sold for $4.3 million. Although the Lik sale has apparently become questionable.


It still sold for the price stated.  He just used marketing to get that price.

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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9 years 3 weeks ago #429225 by Joves

Scotty wrote:

garyrhook wrote:

Joves wrote: I believe that that Rhineland River photo sold for an idiotic price above that. I cannot remember. Or it is more like do not want to remember such abject insanity.


No, it sold for $4.3 million. Although the Lik sale has apparently become questionable.


It still sold for the price stated.  He just used marketing to get that price.


According to Lik he got that price. Whether he actually got that price is in question. While I do not particularly care for the guy, because he is a grandstanding poser, I will give him credit for being great at self promotion, and getting affluent idiots to part with their cash.


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9 years 3 weeks ago #429304 by Tim Dordeck
Just think of the day when that figure crosses 8 figures.  $10,000,000.  Now that's a party!


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9 years 3 weeks ago #429330 by Don Fischer
I wish they would post that photo on site's like this and have people critique it!


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9 years 3 weeks ago - 9 years 3 weeks ago #429348 by cybersholt
@Don I agree some of these multimillion dollar photos are something else right.

I managed to find a list from Wikipedia :

  Rank Artist Work Price Date Seller/Auction
1 Andreas Gursky Rhein II  (1999) $4,338,500 November 8, 2011 Christie's  New York [1]
2 Cindy Sherman Untitled #96  (1981) $3,890,500 May 2011 Christie's  New York [2] [a]
3 Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol,near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) (1992) $3,666,500 May 8, 2012 Christie's  New York [4]
4 Andreas Gursky 99 Cent II Diptychon  (2001) $3,346,456 February 2007 Sotheby 'sLondon auction [5]
5 Edward Steichen The Pond-Moonlight  (1904) $2,928,000 February 2006 Sotheby's New York auction [6]
6 Cindy Sherman Untitled #153  (1985) $2,700,000 November 2010 Phillips de Pury & Co.  New York [2]
7 unknown Billy the Kid  (1879–80)  tintype  portrait $2,300,000 June 2011 Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction [7]
8 Dmitry Medvedev Tobolsk Kremlin  (2009) $1,750,000 January 2010 Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg [8] [9] [10]
9 Edward Weston Nude (1925) $1,609,000 April 2008 Sotheby 'sNew York auction [11]
10 Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919) $1,470,000 February 2006 Sotheby's New York auction [6]
11 Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919) $1,360,000 February 2006 Sotheby's New York auction [6]
12 Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy) (1989) [12] $1,248,000 November 2005 Christie's  New York auction [13]
13 Richard Avedon Dovima  withelephants (1955) $1,151,976 November 2010 Christie's  Paris auction [14]
14 Edward Weston Nautilus  (1927) $1,082,500 April 2010 Sotheby 'sNew York auction [15]
16 Jeff Wall Untangling (1994) $780,000
( A$ 1,000,000) November 2006 The National Gallery of Victoria  [16]
17 Eugène Atget Joueur d'Orgue (1898–1899) $686,500 April 2010 Christie's  New York auction [17]
18 Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol (1987) $643,200 October 17, 2006 Christie's  New York auction [18]
19 Ansel Adams Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico  (1948) [19] $609,600 October 2006 Sotheby's New York auction [20]

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9 years 3 weeks ago #429439 by Robert Chen
Missing Peter Lik

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9 years 3 weeks ago #429597 by Scotty

Joves wrote:

Scotty wrote:

garyrhook wrote:

Joves wrote: I believe that that Rhineland River photo sold for an idiotic price above that. I cannot remember. Or it is more like do not want to remember such abject insanity.


No, it sold for $4.3 million. Although the Lik sale has apparently become questionable.


It still sold for the price stated.  He just used marketing to get that price.


According to Lik he got that price. Whether he actually got that price is in question. While I do not particularly care for the guy, because he is a grandstanding poser, I will give him credit for being great at self promotion, and getting affluent idiots to part with their cash.


They confirmed the price, they were saying it was artificially inflated.  His work is good, but not for the prices.  He mastered printing and marketing for sure.

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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