Bleak river
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:59 pm
It is photo in which German artist Andreas Gursky wanted to capture a desolate but ‘accurate image of a modern river’.
He even turned to computer trickery to remove any intrusive features – dog walkers, cyclists, a factory building – until it was bleak enough to satisfy him.
And while it is hard to argue that he has achieved his aim - it is even harder to see why someone would pay a substantial sum of money to own the piece.
But the digitally altered - and some might say visually uninteresting - 'Rhine II' has become the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction
The 1999 photograph has sold for $4.3million (£2.7m) at Christie’s in New York City.
It is not known who bought the glass-mounted 80in by 140in print.
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