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List Of Most Expensive Photographs
This is a list of the 30 highest prices paid for photographs (in United States dollar, US dollars unless otherwise stated). All prices include the buyer's premium, which is the auction house fee for handling the work. List Disputed claim # In December 2014, Peter Lik reportedly sold a photograph titled ''Phantom'' to an anonymous bidder for $6.5 million, making it potentially the second highest price paid for a photograph. Lik's claim has been greeted with much scepticism. Claims of the sale have never been proven, and the buyer has not come forward, though a lawyer claiming to represent the buyer claims that the deal was real. See also *List of most expensive paintings *List of most expensive sculptures *List of most expensive artworks by living artists *List of most expensive books and manuscripts *List of most expensive non-fungible tokens References External linksArtnet top ten most expensive photographs April 2003The two most expensive Stieglitz photos, 2006 click th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Violon D'Ingres
''Le Violon d'Ingres'' (French for ''Ingres's Violin'') is a black-and-white photograph created by American visual artist Man Ray in 1924. It is one of his best-known photographs and of surrealist photography. The picture was first published in the Surrealist magazine ''Littérature'' in June 1924. It shows model Kiki de Montparnasse from the back, nude to below her waist, with two f-holes painted on to make her body resemble a violin. Analysis The photograph takes its name from a popular French expression, ''le violon d'Ingres'', which means a hobby, in reference to the fact that the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres used to play the violin as a pastime when he was not painting. Man Ray admired Ingres's work and he drew inspiration from his painting ''The Valpinçon Bather'' (1808) for this photograph. He had his model and then lover Kiki de Montparnasse pose for him. In a first photograph, ''Étude pour Le Violon d'Ingres'', she is seen of profile, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
99 Cent II Diptychon
''99 Cent II Diptychon'' is a two-part colour photograph made by Andreas Gursky in 2001. It was based on an original photograph called ''99 Cent (photograph), 99 Cent'', from 1999, sometimes called "99 cent.1999". The work depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods. The work is digitally altered to reduce perspective. The photograph is a chromogenic color print or Chromogenic color print, c-print. It is a diptych. There were 6 sets made and mounted on Poly(methyl methacrylate), acrylic glass. The photographs have a size of . Record sale prices The work became famous as being the List of most expensive photographs, most expensive photograph in the world when it was auctioned at Sotheby's on February 7, 2007, for a price of US$3.34 million. Another auction in New York in May 2006 fetched $2.25 million for a second print, and a third print sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery. These would be the fourth and sixth-most costly pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lik
Peter Lik (born 1959) is an Australian photographer best known for his nature and panoramic landscape images. He hosted ''From the Edge with Peter Lik'', which aired for one season on The Weather Channel. Early life Lik was born in Melbourne to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia after World War II.“Peter Lik Bio,” Weather.com, 20 January 2011. He took his first photo at the age of 8, after his parents gave him a Kodak Brownie box camera for his birthday. The shot was of a spider web in the garden of the family home. In his youth, Lik would bring his camera on family vacations and take phot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
99 Cent (photograph)
''99 Cent'' is a colour photograph by German photographer Andreas Gursky, created in 1999. It depicts a view of the interior of a 99 cent store in Los Angeles. It was created with the use of digital manipulation, like the artist does for his work since 1990. The photograph was included by ''Time'' magazine in the list of the 100 most important photographs ever taken in 1999. Gursky made a new version of this photograph, ''99 Cent II Diptychon'', in 2001, which would be one of the most expensive ever sold. History and description Gursky explained that he was inspired to create this photograph one day while driving in Los Angeles, on his first time there, when he became fascinated by a similar store window. The current photograph depicts several shelves of consuming goods aligned in a row, all with the same price, including recognizable brands of chocolates, beverages, peanut butter and tooth paste. The result is a large colourful composition, where six white poles standout and cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tintype
A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, but lesser use of the medium persisted into the early 20th century and it has been revived as a novelty and fine art form in the 21st. Tintype portraits were at first usually made in a formal photographic studio, like daguerreotypes and other early types of photographs, but later they were most commonly made by photographers working in booths or the open air at fairs and carnivals, as well as by itinerant sidewalk photographers. Because the lacquered iron support (there is no actual tin used) was resilient and did not need drying, a tintype could be photographic processing, developed and fixed and handed to the customer only a few minutes after the picture had been taken. The tintype photograph saw mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris, Montparnasse (photograph)
''Paris, Montparnasse'' is a colour photograph created by German photographer Andreas Gursky in 1993. The large photograph has the overall dimensions of 210 by 395 cm, and had a five copies edition. Description and analysis The photograph depicts the Immeuble d’habitation Maine-Montparnasse II, in the Rue Commandant-Mouchotte, in Paris, a work of French architect Jean Dubuisson, built from 1959 to 1964. The picture was one of the first made after Gursky decided to use digital manipulation, and what is depicted can't be seen in reality, its only the artist's creation, because the view is blocked by buildings in either side of the frame. The picture shows Gursky's interest in architectural motives and his approach, like in other works, is closer to painting, reminding the works of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, specially his famous grid creations, and German painter Gerhard Richter "Colour Charts". In the words of Peter Galassi: “Like the multiplicity of Richter’s subtle t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Board Of Trade (photograph)
''Chicago Board of Trade'' is a colour photograph made by German artist Andreas Gursky in 1997. It is the original picture that he took of the Chicago Board of Trade, of which he would make new versions in 1999 and in 2009. The photograph had six editions, one of which is at The Broad Museum, in Los Angeles. It is also a part of a series that the artist made on the subject of stock exchanges and board of trades across the world, since 1990. The picture has the large format of 185,42 by 241,94 cm. In this original version the space depicted is larger, showing also the surrounding area, including the balconies, of the Chicago Board of Trade, who would be cropped in the following versions. This first version was sold by $2,507,755 at Sotheby's, London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillips (auctioneers)
Phillips, formerly known as Phillips the Auctioneers (briefly as Phillips de Pury), is a British auction house. It was founded in London in 1796, and has head offices in London and in New York City. It was owned by the Mercury Group, a Russian luxury goods company. History Phillips was founded in 1796 by Harry Phillips, who had been a clerk to James Christie. The business held twelve auctions in its first year and soon became successful. Napoleon and Beau Brummel were among the early patrons. Harry Phillips died in 1840, and the business passed to his son William Augustus, who renamed it Phillips & Son; when his son-in-law Frederick Neale joined in 1882, the company became Phillips, Son & Neale. It was renamed Phillips in the 1970s; it was usually referred to as Phillips, the Auctioneers. In 1999 a majority stake in the company was sold to venture capitalists 3i, who resold it shortly after for a considerable profit. The company was bought in 1999 by Bernard Arnault of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untitled 153
''Untitled #153'' is a color photograph made by American visual artist Cindy Sherman in 1985. In 2010, a print was auctioned for $2.7 million, making it one of the most expensive photographs ever sold at that time. History and description The picture resulted from an invitation of the magazine '' Vanity Fair'' to create a series of photographs inspired by fairy tales. The photographs would never be published by the magazine but are amongst some of her best and more representative work. They tend to be more dark and grotesque than the sources where it is supposed to have taken inspiration, and aren't directly inspired by any specific fairy tale. The current picture is, like its usual in the artist, a self-portrait, depicting a woman, lying in the ground as a corpse, covered with mud in what appears to be a natural environment. Eva Respini said of the picture: “Even when Sherman is in the photographs, she appears doll-like and artificial, as in ''Untitled #153''. Reminiscent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles (photograph)
''Los Angeles'' is a colour photograph made by German visual artist Andreas Gursky in 1998. It is an edition of six. The image was manipulated by computer, following the artist usual process. Its one of the largest examples of the artist's work. It depicts Los Angeles, California, at night, under a very dark sky, with the city lights shining through. The cosmic-like vision of the city even gives the impression of showing part of the Earth's curvature. A print of ''Los Angeles'' was sold at Sotheby's, London, by $2,900,000 on 27 February 2008. One copy, signed and dated in the reverse: "A Gursky "Los Angeles" 4/6 '98'" sold at a London Auction on 6 October 2017 for £1,689,000. Prints of the picture are held at The Broad Museum, in Los Angeles, and at the Harvard Art Museums. See also * List of most expensive photographs This is a list of the 30 highest prices paid for photographs (in United States dollar, US dollars unless otherwise stated). All prices include the buyer's premiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pond—Moonlight
''The Pond—Moonlight'' (also exhibited as ''The Pond—Moonrise'') is a pictorialist photograph by Edward Steichen. The photograph was made in 1904 in Mamaroneck, New York, near the home of his friend art critic Charles Caffin. The photograph features a forest across a pond, with part of the moon appearing over the horizon in a gap in the trees. ''The Pond—Moonlight'' is an early photograph created by manually applying light-sensitive gums, giving the final print more than one color. Only three known versions of ''The Pond—Moonlight'' are still in existence and, as a result of the hand-layering of the gums, each is unique. One version was given by Steichen to the Museum of Modern Art and remains in its collection under the title ''Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York''. A second version was in the personal collection of Alfred Stieglitz, which was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1933. This had been reproduced in Stieglitz's photography journal ''Camera Work'', No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untitled Film Still 48
''Untitled Film Still 48'' is a black and white photograph taken by Cindy Sherman in 1979. It is part of her '' Untitled Film Stills'' photographic series, taken from 1977 to 1980. This picture is also known as ''The Hitchhiker''. History and description The current photograph was taken in Arizona, when the artist was there on holiday, and depicts her portraying a woman, with a blonde wig and arms crossed behind her back, dressed in a pleated skirt, standing at the left side of a road, with her briefcase behind her, looking away, probably awaiting for someone to pick her up. To her left, a natural landscape extends. This picture reflects the influence of both American and European cinema, like the rest of the series, and also recalls the work of American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Sherman said about the picture: "Out there I wanted to be further away from the camera; I didn't want to compete with the landscape. I liked being smaller in the picture and having the scenery tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
