A photographer has sold a picture of an Irish potato for €1-million.
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Kevin Abosch, 46, who is based in Dublin and Paris, confirmed this weekend he had sold the print, mounted on an aluminium composite, to a European businessman.
We had two glasses of wine and he said, “I really like that”. We set the price two weeks later’.
Despite the hefty price tag, the unnamed buyer was unfazed and shelled out an incredible £750,000 for the Abosch portrait.
And the 2010 snapshot isn’t even unique.
How much would you pay for this picture of an organic Irish potato? According to the English newspaper, there are three print versions of the potato, of which one belongs in his private collection, another is donated to an art museum in Serbia and the third was sold.
Abosch’s explanation of how the sale came about suggests wine might have had something to do with the transaction. He goes by the name Kevin Abosch, a photographer who is quite celebrated across the world.
The famed potato, whose mud-caked image costs more than our salaries put together, is titled “Potato #345”.
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Abosch’s previous work includes Faces of Ireland, a series of 250 portraits of people from Ireland, launched in 2011, as well as portraits of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, and Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg.
