''Chicago Board of Trade'' is a colour photograph made by German artist

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his Large format (photography), large format architecture and Landscape photography, landscape colour photogr ...

in 1997. It is the original picture that he took of the

Chicago Board of Trade The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established on April 3, 1848, is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges. On July 12, 2007, the CBOT merged with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to form CME Group. CBOT and three other excha ...

, of which he would make new versions in 1999 and in 2009. The photograph had six editions, one of which is at

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Museum, in

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. 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

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, on 24 June 2013, making it one of the most expensive photographs ever sold.

References

Color photographs Photographs by Andreas Gursky 1997 in art 1990s photographs Collection of The Broad {{photography-stub