George Rodger — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works73

Museum Acquisitions

13 Institutions

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art Institute of Chicago

SFMOMA

Cleveland Museum of Art

LACMA

Princeton University Art Museum

Pompidou

Yale University Art Gallery

High Museum

Previous Sales 10

Christie's

Images of Africa, 1940s

£3,500 ($5k USD)

Oct 2013

Christie's

Wrestler, Korongo Nuba of Kordofan, South Sudan, 1949

£2,750 ($4k USD)

Oct 2013

Christie's

The Sacred Mountains of Bali, 1953

£937 ($1k USD)

Oct 2013

Christie's

Self-portraits in Africa, 1940s

£437 ($577 USD)

Oct 2013

Christie's

African Male Study, Kordofan, Sudan, 1949

£1,500 ($2k USD)

May 2010

Los Angeles Modern Auctions

The Champion of a Korongo Nuba

$2,772

Aug 2023

Los Angeles Modern Auctions

Korongo Nuba Wrestlers, Kordofan, South Sudan

$630

Aug 2023

Finarte

- Untitled (Winston Churchill funeral, St. Paul Cathedral), 1865

€600 ($660 USD)

May 2026

Finarte

- Napori Karamota, 1958

Bought In

Apr 2026

Cambi · Artsy

Guerrie ougandais, 1958

Bidding closed

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For Sale 5

Magnum Photos · Artsy

N'Djamena (formerly Fort Lamy). Hassau chieftains demonstrate their superb horsemanship in a "Fantasia". 1941 CHAD. Chari-Baguirmi., 1940

Price on request

Tirage argentique

Magnum Photos · Artsy

Sean Connery as James Bond in the film "Goldfinger", London, Great Britain, 1964

Price on request

Archival pigment print

Magnum Photos · Artsy

Life in London during The Blitz of World War II. London, England, Great Britain, 1940

Price on request

Digital fiber print

Magnum Photos · Artsy

Queen Elizabeth National Park. Uganda, 1958

Price on request

Archival pigment print

Magnum Photos · Artsy

Line of Bari women. Aluma Plateau, Sudan, 1954

Price on request

Digital fiber print

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Market51 auction results

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$577 – $4.6K

3 of 4 photographs lots with prices

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$2.0K

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$660

3 priced photographs lots

calendar_todayLast Photograph Sale

May 2026 · $660

Latest priced sale: - Untitled (Winston Churchill funeral, St. Pa... - 29.7 x 19.8 cm - $1/sq cm

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Photographs: $660 medianPosters/ephemera: $2.8K median

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Los Angeles Modern AuctionsFinarte

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Publications3

Monograph 1

Village of the Nubas Author

Phaidon Press · 1999

Exhibition Catalog 2

George Rodger: On the Road 1940-1949 Author

Hatje Cantz · 2009

George Rodger: Unterwegs 1940-1949 Author

Hatje Cantz · 2009

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Current Exhibitions0

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Lee Miller at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris: A Photographer Between War, Beauty and Chaos

Lee Miller, the American photographer who transitioned from fashion modeling and surrealist experimentation to war photography, is the subject of a ma…

exhibitionsMay 26, 2026

La Seconda guerra mondiale con gli occhi dei grandi fotografi in una mostra a Gorizia

Palazzo Attems-Petzenstein in Gorizia hosts the exhibition "Back to Peace? La guerra vista dai grandi fotografi Magnum," which presents the Second Wor…

exhibitionsApr 29, 2026

Magnum Photos agency’s first exhibition, lost for a half-century, to make its North American debut

The Image Centre in downtown Toronto will stage the North American debut of Magnum Photos' first-ever exhibition, originally titled 'Gesicht der Zeit'…

exhibitionsAug 22, 2025

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