NEW YORK (AP) — A sale of historic photographs including works by Ansel Adams, Lucas Samaras and Andy Warhol has set records at a New York City auction.
Sotheby’s auction house says its two-day sale of about 1,000 photographs from the Polaroid corporate collection concluded Tuesday, fetching more than $12 million. Its presale estimate was up to $10.7 million.
Adams’ “Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park” sold for $722,500. That shattered his 2006 auction record of $609,600 for “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.”
A Samaras work called “Ultra-Large (Hands)” went for $194,500. The previous record for the artist was $132,000 for “Transformation: Eyeglasses” in 1989.
