De vez en cuando viene bien ver los precios que alcanzan en USA las fotos antiguas de grandes maestros.
Por ejemplo en esta letter de Alex Novax un conocido marchante de fotos.
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................The next lot was one of the early big tests, lot 4, Edward Steichen's In
Memoriam, 1901 (Female Nude), estimated at $400,000-600,000. It's an
important image that has come up before at auction and privately.
Several bidders in the room made a play for it, including New York
dealer Hans Kraus, Jr., who owned a copy previously, and
collector/dealer Michael Mattis. In the end it was New York gallerist
Howard Greenberg against Christie's consultant Matthieu Humery on the
phone with bidder 1763, whom I suspect was his boss at Christie's
Francois Pinault. Pinault is worth a reported $14 billion dollars.
Guess who won the bidding war on this one? Yes, bidder 1763 at
$665,000. It would not be the only time that bidder would make a dent
here. This lot would wind up as the second highest of this auction.
Given that the Musée d'Orsay had paid slightly over $400,000 in October
1999 for Steichen's 'In Memoriam' at the Jammes sale in London, which
set a record for a Steichen image at the time, this lot did not seem...................
