Sunday, February 19, 2006

Old Photographs Really Sell


Do you have any old pictures lying around?

The print, "The Pond-Moonlight," went for $2,928,000 at Sotheby's in New York last night, more than doubling the previous record. The old record, $1,248,000, was set Nov. 8 at Christie's for an untitled photograph of a Marlboro cigarette ad by contemporary art photographer Richard Prince.
And here is your two-page copy of the Sotheby's Press Release for one of Picasso's paintings.