$10 Photo Now Worth up to $500,000

siumaibb

In 1927, a young photographer bought a print at San Francisco’s East West Galleries for $10 — roughly $125 today. Bernice Lovett could not pay the full price of the image at once, so she paid for it in monthly 50 cent installments. Lovett’s family held on to the photograph for over 80 years.

As it happens, the print was a signed, early print of Edward Weston’s Nautilus Shell, which became widely recognized as one of the greatest modernist photographs of all time.

The photograph will be sold in April at Sotheby’s auction house and is estimated to fetch somewhere between $300,000 to $500,000.

tofu

in 1927 for $10 — roughly $125 today.
should be $1250 or more ar?  make an monthly installment of $6.25 today money?

快樂牛郎

When you are famous, even shxt smells good

快樂牛郎

I do think Edward Weston is good, but how much price you can attach to an artwork is just artificial.

Prelude

I heard it was like 5 cent per wonton noodle soup in hong kong at around 1940.
How much are wonton noodle soup nowadays?  $15 HKD?
That's 300 times over.