This iconic Man Ray print just became the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction:
This weekend, an iconic Man Ray print sold for $12.4 million at Christie’s, nearly tripling the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
A prolonged bidding war pushed the piece well past its $5 million to $7 million pre-sale estimate—which itself would have been a record—during a sale dedicated to the on May 14. Cashing in on a recent market trend toward the mid-century movement, the event netted more than $42 million in total, far exceeding the pre-sale expectation of $19 million to $30 million., depicts the bare back of model Kiki de Montparnasse overlaid with f-holes.
“Surrealism as an artistic movement has seeped into our consciousness over the course of 100 years now, and no work more so than Man Ray’sfrom 1924,” he told Artnet News in an email. “There are no other photographs that have proven to have the lasting power and playful eroticism that define the Surrealists of the 1920s.
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