Photographs Auction Record Set at Sotheby’s

December 16, 2014 10:37am

Alfred Stieglitz's Evening, New York from the Shelton, sold for $929,000, shattering its $200-300,000 estimate.COURTESY GEH.ORG — Alfred Stieglitz’s *Evening, New York* from the Shelton, sold for $929,000, shattering its $200-300,000 estimate.

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Sotheby’s 175 Photographs to Celebrate 175 Years of Photography sale last week set the record for a photographs auction, totaling $21,325,063 with 90 percent lots sold. The sale exceeded its high estimate of $20 million, and records were set for several photographers, including August Sander, Tina Modotti, and Walker Evans.

The single-owner sale was culled from the collection of Howard Stein and will benefit his Joy of Giving Something Foundation. The previous record for a photographs auction, according to Sotheby’s, was $6 million.