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Last night, art history was made when an anonymous buyer paid a record-breaking $4.34 million for Andreas Gursky's photograph of the Rhine River, called Rhein II.
The snapshot, which sold at Christie's impressionist and modern art auction in New York, became the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
It beat out Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96, which sold for a whopping $3.89 million at a Christie's sale this May.
Gursky's print, made in 1999, was expected to sell for between $2.5 million and $3.5 million. It depicts a stunning panorama of Germany's most famous river. The sale price includes the buyer's premium.
6 Comments
Lucia Mondella said (9 Nov 2011):
Jeez. This gives me hope. Some of my pictures look exactly like this one. I've been told they were bland.
Toby Morrison (JPG Admin) said (9 Nov 2011):
I think this photo is pretty bland too. Although the more I look at it, it does have a certain uniqueness to it. Had this photo been on JPG I don't think I would have favorited it. But that's the cool thing about photography, it's all in the eye of the beholder. Crazy
Keith Bratton said (9 Nov 2011):
It's a Rothco rip off
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missy corrales said (12 Nov 2011):
This stuns me!
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2chanze said (13 Nov 2011):
I'll pay $4.34 for it as well. Great work :)
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