List of most expensive photographs


This is a list of the 26 highest prices paid for photographs. All prices include the buyer's premium, which is the auction house fee for handling the work.

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Disputed claims

  1. In December 2014, Peter Lik reportedly sold a photograph titled Phantom to an anonymous bidder for $6.5 million, making it potentially the highest price paid for a photograph. Lik's claim has been greeted with much scepticism. Claims of the sale have never been proven, and the buyer has not come forward, though a lawyer claiming to represent the buyer claims that the deal was real.
  2. In 2015 Kevin Abosch reportedly sold a photograph called Potato #345 to an anonymous bidder for $1 million.