Digital painting by Beeple artist sold at auction for $69.3 million

A fully electronic painting by American artist Mike Winkelmann, known under the pseudonym Beeple, sold at a London auction at Christie’s for a record 69.3 million dollars, while in the last 20 minutes before the closing of trading, the price of the lot increased more than two and a half times. This is stated in the message of the auction house.

The event allowed Beeple to enter the top three most expensive living artists in the world after Jeff Koons (sculpture “Rabbit”, sold for 91.1 million dollars in 2019) and David Hockney, who sold the painting “Portrait of the artist (Pool with two figures)” for 90.3 million dollars in 2018.
The artist sold a popular meme for one and a half million rubles
The artist sold a popular meme for one and a half million rubles

Beeple’s “First 5000 Days” collage was the first work in the world to be sold as non-exchangeable (NFT) tokens — unique digital tokens that cannot be exchanged or replaced. He began working on it in 2007, adding one small detail to the work every day for more than 13 years.

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