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Digital-only artwork fetches nearly $90 million at Christie’s – The Sydney Morning Herald
It is the first ever sale by a major auction house of a piece of art that does not exist in physical form.
London: A digital artwork sold for nearly $US70 million ($90 million) at Christies on Thursday, in the first ever sale by a major auction house of a piece of art that does not exist in physical form.
Everydays – The First 5000 Days is a digital work by American artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple. It is a collage of 5000 individual images, which were made one-per-day over more than 13 years.
The sale of the work for $US69,346,250 put Beeple in the top three most valuable living artists, Christies…
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