Most Expensive Photographs ever sold

Rank

Artist

Work

Price

Date

1

Andreas Gursky

Rhein II  (1999)

$4,338,500

November 8, 2011

2

Cindy Sherman

Untitled #96  (1981)

$3,890,500

May 2011

3

Jeff Wall

Dead Troops Talk  (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) (1992)

$3,666,500

May 8, 2012

4

Andreas Gursky

99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)

$3,346,456

February 2007

5

Edward Steichen

The Pond-Moonlight (1904)

$2,928,000

February 2006

6

Cindy Sherman

Untitled #153 (1985)

$2,700,000

November 2010

7

unknown

Billy the Kid (1879–80) tintype portrait

$2,300,000

June 2011

8

Dmitry Medvedev

Tobolsk Kremlin (2009)

$1,750,000

January 2010

9

Edward Weston

Nude (1925)

$1,609,000

April 2008

10

Alfred Stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919)

$1,470,000

February 2006

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