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Follow on Google News | A Single Work of Hyper-Cubism Sold for $1 Million But the Artist Returned the MoneyThe artist, Nathan Coppedge recounts a time he received a million-dollar check for a painting.
By: Nathan Coppedge 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/ My Commercial Gallery: Hyper-Cubism: Now available as a paper on Academia: Nathan Coppedge's Artwork Valued at $1 Million (https://www.academia.edu/ https://nathancoppedge.quora.com/ End
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