Potato Photo Sells for More Than $1M: Reports

Kevin Abosch’s potato photo sold for more than $1 million.

FILE - Potatoes are harvested at farm west of Idaho Falls , Idaho, in this September 2010 file photo. A U.S. wholesale grocer says America's potato farmers are running an illegal price-fixing scheme, driving up spud prices while spying on farmers with satellites to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow. AP Photo/Post Register, Robert Bower

A European man bought a photo of a potato---an organic Irish spud---for more than $1 million.

The potato photo, simply called “Potato #345,” sold for 1 million euros last year. It was shot by renowned celebrity photographer Kevin Abosch, who has taken photos of Malala Yousafza, Yoko Ono, and others.

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A European businessman saw the potato photo while he was in Abosch’s home in Paris.

“It’s not the first time that someone has bought the art right off my wall,” he was quoted by the Independent as saying.

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