Rank

Price

Artist

Work

Venue

date

1

$3,346,457

Andreas Gursky

99 Cent II

Sotheby’s London

2/7/2007

2

$2,928,000

Edward Steichen

The Pond - Moonlight

Sotheby’s New York

2/14/2006

3

$2,850,000

Richard Prince

Cowboy

Christie’s New York

05/16/2007

4

$2,112,000

Cindy Sherman

Untitled No. 92

Christie’s New York

5/16/2007

5

$1,888,000

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Black Sea, Yellow Sea, Red Sea

Christie’s New York

5/16/2007

6

$1,472,000

Alfred Stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)

Sotheby’s New York

2/14/2006

7

$1,416,000

Edward Sheriff Curtis

The North American Indian portfolios

Christie’s New York

10/12/2005

8

$1,105,000

Edward Weston

Natuilus

Sotheby’s New York

10/15/2007

9

$1,071,698

Piotr Uklanski

The Nazis (set of 164)

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

10/14/2006

10

$992,000

John Baldessari

Kiss/Panic

Sotheby’s New York

5/15/2007

11

$987,826

Sigmar Polke

Untitled (10 works)

Christie’s London

2/8/2006

12

$916,126

J.P.Girault de Prangey

113. Athènes. 1842.

Christie’s London

5/20/2003

13

$902,767

Thomas Struth

National Museum of Art, Tokyo

Sotheby’s London

6/21/2007

14

$856,000

Gilbert & George

Red morning (Hate)

Christie’s New York

11/8/2005

15

$838,704

Gustave Le Gray

Grande vague - Séte

Sotheby’s London

10/27/1999

16

$822,400

Dorothea Lange

White Angel Bread Line

Sotheby’s New York

10/11/2005

17

$688,000

Mike Kelley

Ahh. . . Youth (8 works)

Christie’s New York

5/9/2006

18

$643,200

Robert Mapplethorpe

Andy Warhol

Christie’s New York

10/17/2006

19

$623,000

Robert Frank

Trolley, New Orleans

Christie’s New York

10/17/2007

20

$609,600

Ansel Adams

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

Sotheby’s New York

10/17/2006

21

$607,500

Man Ray

Noire et Blanche, Paris

Christie’s New York

10/5/1998

22

$607,500

Charles Sheeler

Ford Works

Sotheby’s New York

10/6/1999

23

$607,500

Paul Strand

Mullein, Maine

Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg

4/15/2002

24

$553,600

Diane Arbus

Portfolio of 10

Sotheby’s New York

4/27/2005

25

$534,400

Charles Ray

No

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

11/8/2004

26

$533,750

Bruce Nauman

Light Trap for Henry Moore

Sotheby’s New York

5/17/2000

27

$492,000

Carleton E. Watkins

The Garrison, Columbia River

Sotheby’s New York

4/25/2007

28

$464,000

André Kertész

Chez Mondrian

Sotheby’s New York

10/10/2005

29

$464,000

Richard Avedon

The Beatles (Set of 4)

Christie’s New York

10/10/2005

30

$452,555

Giulio Paolini

Lo Studio

Christie’s Milan

5/21/2007

31

$438,770

August Sander

Handlanger, porteur de briques

Sotheby’s London

10/27/1999

32

$434,457

Charles Marville

Édicules et éclairages

Sotheby’s London

5/17/2005

33

$408,645

Anna Atkins

British Algae

Christie’s London

5/19/2004

34

$406,455

Irving Penn

Harlequin Dress

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

6/22/2007

35

$405,500

Rineke Dijkstra

Hilton Head Island

Christie’s New York

5/14/2002

36

$400,000

Matthew Barney

Cremaster 5: The Queen’s Menagerie

Sotheby’s New York

11/9/2004

37

$396,893

Roger Fenton

The Billiard Room, Mentmore

Sotheby’s London

5/10/2001

38

$390,000

Morton Schamberg

God

Christie’s New York

2/14/2007

39

$387,500

Southworth & Hawes

Two Women Posed with a Chair

Sotheby’s New York

4/27/1999

40

$380,726

Helmut Newton

Big Nude III, Paris

Christie’s London

5/31/2007

41

$374,400

Gerhard Richter

Ema

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

11/16/2006

42

$374,400

Paul Outerbridge Jr.

Marmon Crankshaft

Sotheby’s New York

2/14/2006

43

$365,900

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Shadows and Reflection, Venice

Christie’s New York

4/27/2004

44

$361,000

Imogen Cunningham

Tower of Jewels

Sotheby’s New York

10/15/2007

45

$351,150

Jeff Wall

The Crooked Path

Christie’s London

10/23/2005

46

$334,728

Olafur Eliasson

The Fault Series (32 works)

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

6/22/2007

47

$318,400

Wang Qingsong

Follow Me

Sotheby’s New York

9/20/2006

48

$312,000

Alexander Rodchenko

Sokolniki Park, Winter, Hockey

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

4/24/2007

49

$312,000

Frantisek Drtikol

Snezna vlna (Snow wave)

Sotheby’s New York

4/25/2007

50

$307,200

Walker Evans

Alabama Tenant Farmer

Sotheby’s New York

2/15/2006

51

$297,053

László Moholy-Nagy

Berlin im Winter

Sotheby’s London

5/4/2000

52

$296,599

Pierre Charles Simart

Untitled

Sotheby’s Paris

3/21/2002

53

$296,599

Edouard-Denis Baldus

Façade d'un hôtel

Sotheby’s Paris

3/21/2002

54

$288,000

Eugène Cuvelier

Village de Rivière

Sotheby’s New York

4/13/2007

55

$288,000

Horst P. Horst

Mainbocher Corset, Paris

Christie’s New York

4/23/2007

56

$284,500

Nan Goldin

Thanksgiving

Christie’s New York

5/14/2002

57

$277,500

Herbert Bayer

Self Portrait

Christie’s New York

10/4/1999

58

$277,164

Charles Nègre

Le Stryge

Sotheby’s Paris

3/22/2002

59

$277,000

Peter Beard

Hog Ranch

Sotheby’s New York

10/15/2007

60

$265,866

Thibault

Rue St. Maur, Paris, June 1848

Sotheby’s London

5/9/2002

61

$264,000

Adi Nes

Untitled

Sotheby’s New York

2/27/2007

62

$262,400

Thomas Demand

Collection

Christie’s New York

5/5/2006

63

$260,000

Linnaeus Tripe

Burma Views (112 works)

Swann Galleries

5/18/2006

64

$253,900

William Eggleston

Memphis

Christie’s New York

10/15/2004

65

$253,388

Lewis Carroll

Alice Liddell as the Beggar Maid

Sotheby’s London

6/6/2001

66

$252,000

El Lissitzky

Portrait of Kurt Schwitters

Christie’s New York

2/14/2007

67

$252,000

Jaromir Funke

Composition

Sotheby’s New York

4/25/2007

68

$248,930

Andreas Ritter von Ettingshausen

Section of Clematis, 1840

Christie’s London

5/19/2004

69

$248,012

Henri-Victor Regnault

Bords de la Seine à Sevres

Sotheby’s Paris

3/21/2002

70

$247,969

Julia Margaret Cameron

Kate Keown, No.5

Sotheby’s London

5/10/2001

71

$243,200

Peter Weiss

Stiller Nachmittag (11prints)

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

11/8/2004

72

$241,776

Robert Doisneau

Le baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville

Artcurial Briest Le Fur Poulain F. Tajan

4/25/2005

73

$240,000

Adalbert Cuvelier

Along the Scarpe River, near Arras

Sotheby’s New York

4/13/2007

74

$236,750

Bob Seidemann

The Airplane as Art

Sotheby’s New York

10/12/2000

75

$235,764

Horatio Ross

The Scottish Highlands

Sotheby’s London

5/2/1997

76

$228,832

Hippolyte Bayard

Chateau

Christie’s South Kensington

5/5/2000

77

$228,000

Margrethe Mather

Pierrot

Sotheby’s New York

2/14/2006

78

$226,415

Frank Hurley

The Weddell Sea Party

Christie’s London

9/27/2006

79

$224,409

Zhang Huan

Family Tree (in 9 parts)

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

2/6/2007

80

$223,895

Anselm Kiefer

Kirke

Villa Grisebach Auktionen

6/9/2007

81

$220,800

Marc Chagall

Cirque (set of 38, 23 in color)

Sotheby’s New York

10/29/2004

82

$220,000

Henri Le Secq

French Ecclesiastical Architecture

Sotheby’s New York

4/26/1990

83

$216,000

Chuck Close

Self-Portrait

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

4/24/2007

84

$216,000

Dora Maar

Père Ubu

Sotheby’s New York

2/14/2006

85

$216,000

Pierre Dubreuil

The First Round

Sotheby’s New York

10/11/2005

86

$216,000

Tina Modotti

Hands of the Puppeteer, Mexico

Phillips, de Pury & Co.

4/26/2006

87

$214,776

Andres Serrano

Red Pope I-III (triptych)

Cornette de Saint-Cyr

3/31/2007

88

$209,143

Edgar Degas

Taschereau, Degas et Blanche

Sotheby’s Paris

3/21/2002

89

$205,000

Lewis Hine

Worker, Empire State Building

Sotheby’s New York

10/15/2007

90

$204,000

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Untitled (Sand)

Sotheby’s New York

5/16/2007

91

$204,000

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Italy

Christie’s New York

2/14/2007

92

$204,000

Yayoi Kusama

Accumulation of Nets

Christie’s New York

3/16/2006

93

$203,228

Thomas Ruff

Substrat 10 III

Christie’s London

6/21/2007

94

$202,713

William Henry Fox Talbot

Plant Impression

Sotheby’s London

5/4/2000

95

$201,926

Joan Miró

Homme moustachu et sculpture

Tajan

5/24/2007

96

$198,060

Sarah Lucas

Fighting Fire with Fire Six Pack

Christie’s London

2/8/2001

97

$198,000

Eugène Atget

Etang de Corot, Ville d'Avray

Sotheby’s New York

4/25/2007

98

$197,861

Hans Bellmer

La poupée

Calmels Cohen

4/15/2003

99

$196,500

Pierre et Gilles

La Madone au coeur blessé - Lio

Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg

11/13/2003