Saturday, November 12, 2011

The 15 Most Expensive Pictures Ever Taken

A few days ago, Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96 sold for a whopping $3,890,500. Here's a list of the most expensive pictures ever sold, which you can view for way, way less than 4 million dollars.

  • 15. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987)

    Sold for $643,200
  • 14. Eugène Atget, Joueur d'Orgue, (1898-1899)

    Sold for $686,500
  • 13. Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857)

    Sold for $838,000
  • 12. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l'est (1842)

    Sold for $922,488
  • 11. Peter Lik, One (2010)

    Sold for $1,000,000
  • 10. Edward Weston, Nautilus (1927)

    Sold for $1,082,500
  • 9. Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955)

    Sold for $1,151,976
  • 8. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989)

    Sold for $1,248,000
  • 7. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919)

    Sold for $1,360,000
  • 6. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919)

    Sold for $1,470,000
  • 5. Edward Weston, Nude (1925)

    Sold for $1,609,000
  • 4. Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009)

    Sold for $1,750,000
  • 3. Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904)

    Sold for $2,928,000
  • 2. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)

    Sold for $3,346,456
  • 1. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96 (1981)

    Sold for $3,890,500

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