Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Untitled #4, 2003
Photograph · ed. 3/5
Phillips · Apr 11, 2026$70,950 ≈ £52,771 ≈ €60,584Sign up free to see price
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Surfer for One Drop
Catherine Opie (American, b. 1961) · 2018
$264,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ £200,715≈ €224,509
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “pigment print”
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- 56 x 42 in. (142.2 x 106.7 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Art for One Drop (NY011018)
- Date
- September 21, 2018
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 32
- Estimate
- $80,000 – $120,000 (≈ £60,823 – £91,234) (≈ €68,033 – €102,049)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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