Leading Auction House Christie’s Listing Bitcoin Art for the First Time
The world’s largest auction house, Christie’s, will be presenting Bitcoin artwork for the first time. Block 21 of “Portraits of a Mind,” an art project showcasing the original Bitcoin code by Satoshi Nakamoto, will include a painting and a unique digital non-fungible token. Bitcoin Artwork Arrives at Christie’s Robert Alice, a blockchain art project, announced Wednesday the sale of a key artwork in the series entitled “Portraits of a Mind” at Christie’s, the world’s largest auction house. Portraits of a Mind is “a global art....
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Christie’s to auction its first purely digital work by Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann through an NFT marketplace. British auction house Christie’s has announced the auction of its first ever “purely digital work of art." Announcing the news Tuesday, Christie’s said that the NFT artwork will be issued in partnership with major NFT marketplace, MakersPlace. Dubbed “Everydays - The First 5000 Days,” the piece was created by Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the name Beeple.According to the official page of the NFT auction, the starting price for the work, which interested parties can bid on from Feb. 25....
The famed auction house claims it will be the first to accept crypto for a real-time auction of physical art — but other auction houses are not far behind. Prestigious auction house Sotheby’s has announced it will accept Ethereum (ETH) bids in real time for its Nov. 18 auction that includes works by famed street artist Banksy.Sotheby’s claims this will be the first time an auction house has accepted crypto in real time as a standard currency for payment in an auction on a physical work of art. The auction, titled ‘The Now Evening Auction’ features Banksy’s Trolley Hunters and Love Is In....
Next month in New York, the popular auction house Christie’s plans to auction a rare lot of Cryptopunk non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles. The sample of work sold will be approximately nine rare Punks, courtesy of the project’s creators Larva Labs. Nine Rare Cryptopunks Going to Auction On May 13, 2021, the British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie plans to auction nine one-of-a-kind NFTs from the Cryptopunk project. Christie’s said it will be the first of a kind occasion of “groundbreaking work offered at a traditional auction house.” The....
In a landmark announcement today, leading auction house Christie’s will break into a new territory for auctions. Christie’s will be the first of it’s kind to auction off a lot of NFTs with live bidding in Ethereum. The auction will be centered around Art Blocks Curated, a growing NFT series joining the ranks of some […]
The auction for “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” closed at a realized price of $69,346,250. Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, has once again made NFT history after his latest piece, “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” raised over $69 million on Christie’s auction house. “Everydays” was minted on Feb. 16 and put up for auction on Feb. 25 at a starting price of $100. The auction closed on Thursday.The final price tag puts Beeple in elite company as far as living artists go. Only two other living artists, Jeff Koons and David Hockney, have created more expensive works. As....