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Richard Prince Photo Breaks Auction Record

January 8th, 2008


Prince’s Cowboy Photo via pdnonline

On November 14th 2007, a photo from Richard Prince’s untitled cowboy collection sold at Sotheby’s in New York for a record-breaking $3,401,000. This is the most expensive photo sold at auction. The sale barely exceeded Andreas Gursky’s record of $3,340,000. It is notable however, as it is a photograph of a photograph.
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One Response to “Richard Prince Photo Breaks Auction Record”

  1. C-MONSTER.net. » Blog Archive » The Digest. 01.09.08 Says:

    [...] Richard Prince photo (of someone else’s photo) breaks auction record. [...]

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