A Single Work of Hyper-Cubism Sold for $1 Million But the Artist Returned the Money

The artist, Nathan Coppedge recounts a time he received a million-dollar check for a painting.
 
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - April 10, 2017 - PRLog -- November 8, 2016

This may be the artwork that was worth $1 Million.

For years I pondered where that $1 Million deposit to my old Sovereign checking account came from. The money came not from a screenplay, Nobel, or perpetual motion prize, but from a $1 million dollar check for a painting I received on the street.

When I went to the bank, the bank teller told me it was a fake check, but I told her to try to cash it anyway, maybe it would go through.

Anyway, I lost confidence because of what the teller said, I even tried to have the man who gave me the check arrested. But it seemed like too much trouble, so I told him he could have the painting, a million dollars or not.

After that, I assumed it was all over, until an unimaginable time later (around 2009), the check cleared in my account.

Since I didn't know where such a vast sum had come from (having still assumed the check was fake), and fearing some kind of unwilling loan scheme, I told the bank to return the money to whoever has sent it!…

Being unaccustomed to such monies, I never saw the connection, and it wasn't until the day before the Presidential Election in 2016 (today) that I realized the money came from that check!

So long story short, although the money has been returned to the sender or kept by the bank at least still now I know that my artwork is occasionally valued at $1M.

Because of this awareness, I have now officially cleared the first major hurdle to being a famous artist in my lifetime.

http://www.impossiblemachine.com... (http://www.impossiblemachine.com/Gallery2/main.php?g2_GAL...)

My Commercial Gallery: Hyper-Cubism: A Step Beyond Cubism by HyperCubism (http://www.etsy.com/shop/HyperCubism) .

Now available as a paper on Academia: Nathan Coppedge's Artwork Valued at $1 Million (https://www.academia.edu/30052001/Nathan_Coppedges_Artwork_Valued_at_1_Million)

https://nathancoppedge.quora.com/Nathan-Coppedges-Art-Valued-at-1-Million

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