A rare print of one of art history's most iconic images fetched a record $2.76 million at an auction in New York.
Korenberg added that prints of the"Great Wave" were inexpensive at the time, and would once have cost the same"as about two helpings of noodles in the mid-19th century."
Part of Hokusai's famous"Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji" series, the"Great Wave" is now among the world's most widely reproduced images, appearing on posters, mugs, shirts and fridge magnets.in price from a few hundred thousand dollars to over $1.5 million.
The record sale was part of a major auction of Japanese and Korean art that saw almost 200 artworks and antiquities fetch a combined $11.4 million.The"Great Wave" print was among more than 10 works attributed to Hokusai that appeared in the sale. Also among them were prints depicting a waterwheel and a snowy landscape, both from his"Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji" series, that sold for $37,800 and just over $30,000, respectively.
The biggest sale of the day, however, was achieved by an 18th-century Korean"moon jar" — a white porcelain vessel made by joining two hemispherical halves — that sold for over $4.5 million.
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