24 HOURS OF ART
24 HOURS OF ART
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights and Analysis from 11/16 - 11/17
7 Starry Nights
A historic day in the digital art space!
Anonymous collector acquires 7 significant works from the Starry Night Collection via Sotheby’s. Price is undisclosed.
"It’s a real collectors’ market with strong convictions and a growing appetite for historic and blue chip works." - Michael Bouhanna, Head of Digital Art at Sotheby’s
Artworks were originally acquired for 2,904.69 ETH or $10.6m USD (plus undisclosed sum for Fidenza #984). Artwork details:
A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain by Dmitri Cherniak:
Minted: August 6, 2021
Original Sale to Starry: 800 ETH ($2.4m)
A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain by Dmitri Cherniak:
Minted: August 6, 2021
Original Sale to Starry: 500 ETH ($1.5m)
DANKRUPT by XCOPY:
Minted: October 23, 2021
Original Sale to Starry: 469 ETH ($1.9m)
DECAY by XCOPY:
Minted: November 30, 2021
Original Sale to Starry: 345.69 ETH ($1.4m)
Some Other Asshole by XCOPY:
Minted: February 28, 2019
Original Sale to Starry: 550 ETH ($2.3m)
Fidenza #718 by Tyler Hobbs:
Minted: June 11, 2021
Original Sale to Starry: 240 WETH ($1.1m)
Fidenza #984 by Tyler Hobbs
Minted: June 11, 2021
Original Sale to Starry: undisclosed
Fun Addendum: I found these blockchain transfers when going down a rabbit hole during report time yesterday. All 7 exited Sotheby’s and entered a separate wallet. I wondered - sale, security, or preparation for an auction? After posing the question to Sotheby’s, Michael was kind enough to engage, confirm a sale, and offer a contextual quote.
EthBoy Confirmed
1confirmation acquires historic and dynamic AsyncArt piece - EthBoy by Trevor Jones x Alotta Money - for 200 ETH from Maxstealth:
Artwork originally minted November 15, 2020 and sold for 260 ETH ($140,705)
Current sale is nearly 3x in USD terms
Nick Tomaino of 1confirmation adds context on what attracted them: “Programmable cryptoart that changes based on real world events like the price of ETH is unique to the medium.”
Sparks Fly
The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity 1/1/128 by Pindar Van Arman sells out on SuperRare at 1 ETH each:
Van Arman offers signed prints to both buyer and seller for >1 ETH secondary transactions executed on SuperRare
SuperRare sees 18 secondary sales for 23 ETH, OpenSea sees 10 for 13 ETH
First minted token is gifted to Cozomo de’ Medici, who donated early Van Arman work to LACMA
Hello Admin? Please DM Me.
On any other day, this contends for a lead headline. Today it is 4th!
hello admin dm me /20 by XCOPY sells for 35 ETH from Moderats to stardust.eth. Artwork originally acquired December 10, 2019 on KnownOrigin, Moderats still owns 2.
Collection: Highlights
Through Your Eyes by William Mapan x verse: Seven 1/1/8 sell for $70,105, 3 to rksl, #1 edition to artist
Opepen Edition /16k by Jack Butcher /VV: 137 ETH volume, floor: 0.44 ETH
Art Blocks Chromie Squiggle /10k by Snowfro: 5 sales for 51.57 ETH, floor: 9.4 ETH
Winds of Yawanawa /1k by Refik Anadol: 30 ETH volume, floor: 7.99 ETH
ANOMALY A.I. by Star Im: 22 ETH volume, floor: 0.06 ETH
Velocity Series: Velocity Pass /1k: 15 ETH volume, floor: 0.39 ETH
INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - all things fail by die with the most likes, 11:00am ET
INCOMING (Tonic) - Seating Arrangements by Luke Shannon, 1:00pm ET
INCOMING (MakersPlace) - ComplexCon x Tom Yoo, 1:00pm ET
INCOMING (Nifty Gateway) - Nothing to See Here by Ben Zank, 6:30pm ET
1/1: Highlights
Monk Twombly by Jimi Wen: 4 ETH
Respite by Gregory Berg: 1.5 ETH to punk7635
Lord of Slime by Ghxsts: 1 ETH to hammy.eth
WCNSF (Context Not Included) by omz: 1 ETH to FlyingBeagle
a world without you by Kolahon: 0.8 ETH to Glimm3r
Unheard Rebuke by Daïm: 0.7 ETH to FlyingBeagle
deficient by akc: 0.5 ETH
power by Aleqth: 0.5 ETH to _pepe_
Darkness is coming by Sarira Merikhi: 0.4207 ETH to audsssy
FROG NEVER DIES by TungSung: 0.4201 ETH to jaggedNFT.eth
LIVE (SR) - Conversations in Cyclic Confinement by Botto: 4.69 ETH bid, ends 4:00pm ET
LIVE (FND) - I N N O C E N C E / / by Danil Pan: 0.5 ETH bid, ends 12:35pm ET
1/1/X: Highlights
GeoMetric Pepes /100 by Batz: 7 WETH to lolman.eth
Sketchbook A /64 by William Mapan: 5 WETH to sasa.eth
BrainDrops Genesis /500 by Claire Silver: 4.25 WETH to GunnersNFT
Themes and Variations /500 by Vera Molnár: 3.9 ETH to qwerty…
AB Memories of Qilin /1,024 by Emily Xie: 3.63 WETH to losthighway.eth
PROOF Lines of Division (/25) by BASIIC: 3 WETH to t_hot
Primera /400 by Mitchell and Yun: 2.5 ETH to jedmac
AB Trichro-matic /600 by MountVitruvius: 7 sales for 7.82 ETH
Terraforms /9,911 by Mathcastles: 4 sales for 6.6 ETH
AB Cargo /999 by Kim Asendorf: 1.85 ETH & 1.7 WETH
Synthetic Dreams /1k by Refik Anadol: 1.8 ETH
Damien Hirst - The Currency /1,967: 1.51 ETH
AB Chimera /986 by mpkoz: 1.5 ETH to iancr
Singularity in Heritage /166 by Orkhan: 1.45 ETH to clownfishmako
DeepBlack /3,074: 1.05 ETH
Computer Science (Death of) /95 by BASIIC: 1.024 WETH to docsburn
BrainDrops podGANs /1,024 by Pindar Van Arman: 0.95 WETH to Wolf-Metal
Edition: Highlights
Geometry XXI /50 by Frank Stella: 5 ETH
QQL Mint Pass /705 by Tyler Hobbs: 3.61 WETH
Afterburn /870 by XCOPY: 2.19 WETH
Piece of Mind /25 by Alotta Money x Kolectiv: 1 ETH
Pepedenza Editions by Batz: 10 sales for 5.37 ETH
RarePass: Genesis /250 by SuperRare: 3 sales for 1.54 ETH
MAX PAIN /7,394 by XCOPY: 14 sales for 4.24 ETH
Ash Chapter One: Carbon /738 by Pak: 3 sales for 1.09 ETH
professional degen 3 /246 by OSF: 0.339 ETH & 0.2 WETH
professional degen 3a /223 by OSF: 0.228 ETH
SPIRIT_STONE// /170 by Fvckrender: 0.21 WETH
1984 /66 by Skygolpe x Lushsux: $400 to canconfirm
Forever Mamba /429 by Boss Logic: $333 to mercc6350
The Road Ahead /1,299 by Grant Yun: $325 to austinhambelton
The Memes by 6529: Highlights
6529 Seizing /1k: 0.39 WETH to h3xum
rekt6529 /569 by OSF: 0.29 ETH to h3xum
GM Everyone /778 by Deekay: 0.24 WETH
MEME FACTORY /1.4k by Grant Yun: 0.189 ETH to save-as.eth
Closing Thoughts
A day to remember.
There is not much to add here. It’s really all above!
I was honored to spend time with one of the most established digital art collectors out there - Pablo Fraile of the RFC Collection. He was a significant part of both the Unsupervised by Refik Anadol placement in MoMA’s permanent collection, as well as Beeple’s HUMAN ONE placement at Crystal Springs.
Our Conversations:
The Future of Art Podcast (interview)
The Future of Art X Spaces (includes community questions)