Is this photo of the Rhine River on a cloudy day worth more than $4.3 million?

Rhein II, by artist Andreas Gursky.

  One well-to-do collector seems to think so.

The image, which captures the silvery river, planked on either side by lush green grass under an overcast sky, became the world’s priciest picture on Tuesday when it was auctioned at Christie’s for a price of $4,338,500.
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