$1,000,000 Print sold!

Aussie photographer Peter Lik has just sold a single print for a million dollars to a art collector that wanted to stay anonymous. Hit the link to read a small write up and also watch a teaser video of Peters new reality TV show coming out called 100 Miles from nowhere.

http://prophotocoalition.com/index.php/dcarr/story/australian_photographer_sells_photo_for_1million/

Wow that’s amazing!
The show looks like it should be pretty good too.

I went into one of his galleries in Miami. He does such amazing work! Apparently he is the most collected photographer in the world.

Here is a list of the top 10 most expensive prints

1) Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007,Sotheby’s London auction.[1] A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby’s in May 2006.

2) Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby’s New York auction.

3) Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009), $1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.

4) Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009), $1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.

5) Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby’s New York auction.

6) Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby’s New York auction.

7) Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989)[6], $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie’s New York auction.

8) Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955), $1,151,976, November 2010, Christie’s Paris auction.

9) Edward Weston, Nautilus (1927), $1,082,500, April 2010, Sotheby’s New York auction

10) Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T<emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l’est (1842)[10] $922,488, 2003, auction.