List of most expensive photographs

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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. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.[2]
  4. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.[2]
  5. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989)[3], $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction.[4]
  6. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l'est (1842)[5] $922,488, 2003, auction.
  7. Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857)[6] $838,000, 1999.
  8. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987)[7] $643,200, 2006.
  9. Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948)[8] $609,600, Sotheby's New York auction, 2006.[9]
  10. Andreas Gursky, Untitled 5 (1997)[10] $559,724, 6 February 2002.

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