Yarrow fans are hungry for the Wolf

Apart from dating Elizabeth Hurley and Anthea Turner in quick succession, Scotsman David Yarrow is best known as a

wildlife photographer who has caught the eye of the Duke of Cambridge, among others. Although his prints have proved popular, they never commanded high prices at public auction, until last year, when Sotheby’s sold an 8ft wide print of teeming cattle in Sudan, titled

Mankind, for £60,000, three times the estimate.

It was good news for his galleries worldwide, and added to anticipation for The Wolf of Main Street,

which came up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York last week. Picturing a hungrylooking wolf walking along the bar of an inn, the image had a $15,000 (£10,500) estimate.

His Chicago gallery, Hilton-asmus Contemporary, which is currently exhibiting another print of this image, was particularly excited, posting a warning on its website before the sale that the print would fly, and sure enough it did, selling for a new record at $100,000 (£70,000).

The buyer? None other than Hiltonasmus Contemporary.