Rich people buy expensive things so they can impress their equally rich friends; that’s the inherent value of objects and things. Things like the above photographed made by Andreas Gursky.
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The supermarket of the rich is the auction world and it is as exciting as it is weird. Crazy bidding aside, if you’re an outsider you’re often left wondering why someone would pay a couple million dollars for a photograph that looked like it could have been taken by an animal after it walked across your keyboard.
We kid, of course. The image is unique and it isn’t exactly representational as the perspective has been altered, a trick often employed the German visual artist.
Valued at $4.3 million, this photograph of the Rhein, called Rhein 2, after the German river, was up for grabs at an Auction at Christie’s on Tuesday, shattering the record sale of Cindy Sherman‘s Untitled #96, which sold in May.
Usually Gursky’s photographs are vibrant and colorful, not so dull and grey. We still can’t get 99 Cent II Diptychon, his photo of a 99 cent supermarket, out of our heads. Here, the river looks like glass and its green banks are dull. Having never seen the Rhein, we’re assuming its an accurate portrait.
You can view 99 Cent II Diptychon, as well as the $110 million pear cut diamond up for grabs at Sotheby’s, in the gallery above!
