24 HOURS OF ART
Digital Art Market Headlines, Highlights, and Analysis from September 5-6th
The Tale of Two
Outside of Art Blocks, two art collections rule volume:
Winds of Yawanawa by Refik Anadol
Player by Sam Spratt
10 ETH Winds
Winds of Yawanawa by Refik Anadol sees 13 sales for 124.79 ETH, driving floor through 10 ETH. Currently: 10.65 ETH, OS Offer: 10 WETH.
Straight to the Vaults
Sam Spratt says vault ‘em, players oblige. Sparks 7 sales for 48.19 ETH, including finalist edition #37 moving from bosshugo to Cyborgnomad. Floor: 7.33 ETH, OS Offer: 5.4 WETH, NG Offer: $10,000.
INTO THE ETHER
Beeple’s first open editions from December, 2020 see first movement in month-plus with INTO THE ETHER /207 changing hands for 8.5 ETH
Flipping Ringers
24 hours later flip of Art Blocks Dmitri Cherniak Ringer #195 is complete. Original buy 32 ETH, sale 35 ETH.
Paint It ROugE
New CC0 color - ROugE - by artist Tjo representing “infinite threads of energy” makes it way around space. Jake Fried, Alpha Centauri Kid, Efdot, postwook among hundreds to use.
Digital Disobedience
NorCal Guy’s ClickCreate announces “Digital Disobedience” September. Patrick Amadon curates artists apocalypse art, Letsglitchit, Empress Trash, neurocolor, and Tipi. Begins today.
Collection Notes
Machine Hallucinations - NYC by Refik Anadol: 9 sales, 7.4 ETH + $18,470
heart + craft by Snowfro & Jordan Lyall: crosses 25,000 mints
Highlight 1/1 Sales
Speed Abyss by Victor Duarte: 3.69 ETH to Artifaction
Binary Emotions by Marco Bonafè: 2.9 ETH to leftclickbuy
Emotional Mirage by Lord: 1.75 ETH to flyingbeagle
Fortitude by Robert Downie: 1.69 ETH to h3xum
Exposure 008 by Eric Paré x NorCal Guy: 1.2 ETH to TrevorTraynor
Hawaii Drift by Negative Vibrations: 0.6 ETH to DrLeeNFT
Highlight Edition Sales
Art Blocks Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro: 9.549, 13.5 & 13.75 ETH
Art Blocks Archetype /600 by Kjetil Golid: 8.9 ETH to MrClone
Opepen Edition by Jack Butcher: 5.7 WETH
Stigma of Narcissus /21 by Pak - $4,500 to ttm777
Closing Thoughts
Liquidity is an extreme priority in the current market state, and it clusters around a few differentiated sources.
Outside of the liquidity game, we see slow trickles of historical editions - e.g. Beeple and Pak - head to vaults.
It all leaves plenty of room for an artist like Tjo to paint it all ROugE. This mini-meta leads to smaller derivative sales, which artists are jumping on and which (kudos, Tjo!) reflects very well on the source.
Not sure if the market started moving when you started writing these or because you started writing these. Either way, I’m happy to see it. These are fun to read, I hope you’ll keep ‘em coming.