Andreas Gursky/Christie's Images, Ltd., 2011
What you’re looking at is Andreas Gursky’s photo, “Rhein II”, which sold for $4,338,500 at Christie’s in November of last year, breaking the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. Yes, you read that right. Four million dollars. The buyer was anonymous.
Barry, Baker, Brookline, MA by Joel Degrand on zatista.com
According to NPR’s Claire O’Neill, “The photo comes at the mammoth proportion of about 6-by-11 feet, and that’s got to count for something. Plus (sorry all starving photographers), that price tag is nothing unusual for Gursky. Until the purchase of Cindy Sherman‘s Untitled in May, Gursky’s 99 Cent II Diptychon had been the most expensive photo, which sold at Sotheby’s for $3.3 million in 2007. He has photos in major museums like the Museum of Modern Art and London’s Tate Modern and studied under the renowned Bernd and Hilla Becher in Germany.”
Byron Bay by Daniel Grant on zatista.com
The good news is, we don’t sell $4 million photos here on Zatista. We sell affordable photographs, like the two above and this one:
Sheets on a Clothesline by Norman Lerner on zatista.com
And this one:
Shadows by Jeffrey Hummel on zatista.com
And this one:
Negatives #18 by Klaus Rossler
And that’s barely the tip of the iceberg. So make yourself a pot of tea, grab your lap top, sit back in your easy chair, breathe a deep sigh of relief, and enjoy the bounty of budget-friendliness that we have to offer. It’s art that’s fit for folks with fabulous taste and a budget like you and me!
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