How to Sell Photography with Sotheby's
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Fine Art Photography Consignment
When you are ready to sell your fine art photographs, Sotheby’s team of specialists can help you realize the highest price. As the first international auction house to offer regular sales of photography – beginning in 1971 in London and 1975 in New York – Sotheby’s possesses the expertise and technological infrastructure to sell your photographs to its extensive network of buyers.
Auctions of photographs are held throughout the calendar year in New York, London, and Paris, with major sales occurring each spring and autumn.
Sales feature a curated selection of classic images – including photographers such as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Lee Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Frank, and László Moholy-Nagy – as well as contemporary works by Cindy Sherman, Catherine Opie, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Helmut Newton, Thomas Struth, Carrie Mae Weems, Wolfgang Tillmans, Christian Marclay, and many others.
If you would like to know how much your photograph is worth, submit images and information through our easy-to-use online estimate form so that our specialists can provide a bespoke sales plan.
Submit photos and information about your photograph and begin your complimentary estimate request.
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