$21,325,063: a record for the Howard Stein’s auction at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s sale of 175 Masterworks to Celebrate 175 Years of Photography on December 11 and 12 in New York realized a record $21,325,063, led by Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Shadows and Reflections, Venice, at $965,000, and Alfred Stieglitz’s Evening, New York from the Shelton at $929,000 — both well over high estimate. The sale attracted many leading dealers and collectors and the evening sale especially boasted the largest number of people in a New York photography auction salesroom in many years. And in an era when phone, order, and online bidding usually far outnumbers the bidding in the room, this sale featured a majority of winning bids coming from the room, making for real excitement from beginning to end.

Stephen Perloff

_{AUCTION
175 Masterworks To Celebrate 175 Years Of Photography:
Property from Joy of Giving Something Foundation
On Thursday 11 December and Friday 12 December 2014 at 6pm
Sotheby’s Gallery
1334 York Avenue
New York 10021 US
Tel: +1 212 606 7000}

_{Details :
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/175-masterworks-n09275.html?cmp=email_N09275_1214_1_SALexample1_event_button1}

_{Online Catalogue :
http://www.sothebys.com/pdf/2014/N09275/index.html}