The artwork 99 Cent II Diptychon from 2001 is a two part photograph made by Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view...

 probably in 1999, as the work is sometimes called "99 cent.1999".

The work depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods resulting in a colorful work. The work is digitally altered to reduce perspective. The photograph is a chromogenic color print or c-print

Chromogenic color print

Chromogenic color prints are full-color photographic prints made using chromogenic materials and processes. These prints may be produced from an original which is a color negative, slide, or digital image. The chromogenic print process, was nearly synonymous with the 20th century color snapshot...

. It is a two part work, also called a diptych

Diptych

A diptych di "two" + ptychē "fold") is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, wax tablets being coated with wax on inner faces, for recording notes and for measuring time and direction.In Late Antiquity, ivory diptychs with...

. There were 6 sets made and mounted on acrylic glass.
The photographs have a size of 207 by 337 cm (6.8 by 11.1 ft).

Record sale prices

The work became famous as being the most expensive photograph in the world when it was auctioned at Sotheby's on February 7 in 2007 for a price of US$3.34 million. Another auction in New York in May 2006 fetched $2.25 million for a second print, and a third print sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery. These would be the fourth and sixth-most costly photographs sold, as of 2011. On May 12th 2011 Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" from 1981 was sold for $3.89 million.

External links

• Exhibitions - 2001 - Andreas Gursky on MoMA.org