Known simply as potato #345, this portrait shot by visual artist Kevin Abosch has reportedly sold for a whooping €1 million (approximately $1.5 million AUD). The humble spud has entered the fine art game.

Abosch’s subjects are usually a better known – think Johnny Depp, Malala Yousafzai or Yoko Ono. But the artist has been known to turn his camera to the chicken carcass or his father’s prescription medication, using the same black backgrounds and single lights.

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The image was shot in 2010, but Abosch confirmed its recent sale in an interview with the Sunday Times, saying that the deal was brokered over a few glasses of wine with a European businessman, and that it’s the highest price that any of his original works have fetched.

He only made three prints of the spud; with two sold to private buyers, the third print hangs in a Serbian museum, as he told to CNN.

“I see commonalities between humans and potatoes that speak to our relationship as individuals within a collective species,” Abosch said.

“Generally, the life of a harvested potato is violent and taken for granted. I use the potato as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience.”

And the kicker? Abosch is an Irishman.