Ms. d'Harnoncourt added that the money from the sale would be used to buy other prints.

Right after completing graduate school at the Institute of Fine Art, he started buying prints.

By not buying 35-millimeter film stock or striking 35-millimeter prints, it stands to save millions.

You can buy prints on the street.

(I bought it for several hundred dollars and went on to buy other prints; they are no longer a part of my collection.)

But when the art market went wild in the late 1980's, the Japanese began to buy prints with a fervor.

Mr. Tunick also saw museums buying prints then too, spending well into six figures.

Some have found that by buying photographs, prints or other limited-edition works, they can afford more than they thought.

Some people buy prints because a particular artist or subject attracts them.

Others buy prints with a dominant color scheme.