New York Photo Results

Sotheby's hits $4m with photographs; Christie's gets to $6.9m; Looking for the real Chinese Contemporary art; Munch's prints and Minnesota's Missing Munch.

Sotheby’s Photographs = $4m

Sotheby’s made $4m from the sale of 131 out of 189 photographs or 69% in New York last week. Emily Bierman, Head of Sotheby’s Photographs Department in New York, commented: “There was tremendous interest for classic fashion photography, led by Irving Penn’s seminal Black and White Vogue Cover and Woman in Chicken Hat, as well …