What are the highest prices for video art?

Bill Viola's Eternal Return sold for $712,452 in 2000.  The rest of the top ten is all by Viola, Nam June Paik, Matthew Barney, and Bruce Nauman, with the #10 work going for $234,814.  I like video art, but to buy it…to me that is one very expensive movie ticket.  I did, however, shell out for a Netflix subscription, so at the margin I can watch Black Narcissus for nothing.

The data are from the new and interesting book Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market, by Noah Horowitz.

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