The most expensive photographs sold at auction: part 3

The third instalment of The Most Expensive Photographs Sold At Auction series sees prints from Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Man Ray, whose Portrait of a Tearful Woman sold and entered the list earlier this year. If you want to see post one click here, and for post two click here.

Starting from low to high:

Gilbert & George Red Morning (Hate) 1977. Hand coloured Gelatin Silver print. Sold at Christie’s New York in November 2013: $1,805,000

Thomas Struth Pantheon, Rome 1990. Chromogenic colour print. Sotheby’s New York in May 2016: $1,810,000

Andreas Gursky Rhein 1996. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Phillips in May 2013: $1,925,000

Cindy Sherman Untitled 92 1981. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Christie’s New York in November 2013: $2,045,000

Man Ray Portrait of a Tearful Woman 1936. Hand-coloured Gelatin Silver print. Sold at Christie’s New York in May 2017: $2,167,500

Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still 48 1979. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Sotheby’s New York in November 2014: $2,225,000 (Side Note: This is an earlier edition to the same photograph which appears earlier in the list)

Unknown “Billy the Kid” (Fort Sumner, New Mexico) 1879. Tin-type. Sold at Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction in June 2011: $2,300,000

Andreas Gursky Paris, Montparnasse 1993. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Sotheby’s London in October 2013: $2,416,475

Andreas Gursky Chicago Board of Trade 1997. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Sotheby’s London in June 2013: $2,507,755

Cindy Sherman Untitled 153 1985. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Phillips New York in November 2010: $2,770,500

Cindy Sherman Untitled 96 1981. Chromogenic colour print. Sold at Christie’s New York in May 2012: $2,882,500