The popularity of “photography” among the wealthy in the art market continues to grow, with Richard Prince’s Untitled (cowboy), the first photograph to break the “$1 million” barrier, selling for $1.248 million in 2005. The first “$1 million” photograph, Richard Prince’s “Untitled (cowboy)”, sold for $1.248 million in 2005, and “Rhine No. 2” fetched $4.338 million, setting a new record for the highest priced photograph at the Time.
The Rhine River, which has a lot of beauty, was captured by German photographer Andreas Gursky. The photo was taken by Andreas Gursky, a German photographer, and sold at a record price. This is the actual view of the Rhine River, not the photographic work. (Diagram/Provided by a reader)
The Rhine 2 was taken in 1999 by German artist Andreas Gursky, who took this seemingly uneventful picture of the Rhine River.
The remaining five photographs of varying sizes are currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Kunsthalle in Munich, and the Glennstone Museum of Art in the United States.
In 2011, “Rhine 2” was sold at Christie’s for $4,338,500, the highest price ever paid for a photograph, but it was surpassed in 2013 by Australian photographer Peter Lik for $6.5 million. Peter Lik surpassed it for $6.5 million in 2013.
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