New World's Record - Pic Sells For $2.9 Million
 

Amazing, $2.9 Mil for one image. And 2 others, one of which was a "nude" shot went for over a mil also. LOL

NEW YORK - A photograph of a pond taken by Edward Steichen sold for more than $2.9 million on Tuesday, easily setting a world record for the highest-priced photograph ever auctioned, Sotheby's said.

"The Pond-Moonlight," taken on Mamaroneck, N.Y., in 1904, sold for $2,928,000, including the buyer's premium, Sotheby's spokesman Matthew Weigman said. It was bought by Peter MacGill, of Pace/MacGill Gallery, on behalf of a private collector.

The photograph shows a pond in a wooded area with light coming through the trees and reflected in the water. Pre-sale estimates priced the photo, which is slightly bigger than 16 inches by 19 inches, at up to $1 million. The only other two prints are in museum collections.

The previous record for a photograph sold at auction, $1,248,000, was set in November by Richard Prince's "Untitled (Cowboy)."

Also surpassing that record on Tuesday were two photographs of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe taken by Alfred Stieglitz, her husband. A photograph of her hands sold for $1,472,000, and a portrait of her nude sold for $1,360,000, Weigman said. Both went to West Coast dealers.


Pic of the Photo Sold For $2.9 Million

very depressing photo. i wouldnt buy it even for 3.50

whats so great about that?
it looks like a movie poster to me

Yeh, its not exactly a masterpiece. Wonder what the nude image of his wife that sold for $1.3 Million looks like?

:1orglaugh

Usually, ultra wealthy people that collect and pay millions for stuff like this are a bit on the eccentric side.

Same kind of folks that will pay millions for a little antique table from the 1700's.

Go figure.