Cost like GOLD photos -TOP16

1) Cindy Sherman, Untitled №96 (1981), $3,890,500, May 2011, Christie's New York.

2) Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby's London auction. 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.

3)Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

4)Unknown photographer, Billy the Kid (1879–80), tintype portrait, $2,300,000, June 2011, Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction.

5)Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009), $1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.

5)Edward Weston, Nude (1925), $1,609,000, April 2008, Sotheby's New York auction.

6) Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

7)Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

8)Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction.

9)Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955), $1,151,976, November 2010, Christie's Paris auction.

10) Edward Weston, Nautilus (1927), $1,082,500, April 2010, Sotheby's New York auction.

11) Peter Lik, One (2010), $1,000,000, December 2010, Anonymous Collector

12) Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l'est (1842) $922,488, 2003, auction.

13) Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857) $838,000, 1999.

14) Eugène Atget, Joueur d'Orgue, (1898–1899), $686,500, April 2010, Christie's New York auction.

15) Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987) $643,200, 2006

16) Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948) $609,600, Sotheby's New York auction, 2006

 

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