24 HOURS OF ART: Friday Highlights
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 7/11 - 7/12
Back-to-Back Nakamoto
‘RAREPEPE | Series 1 Card 1’ /300 by Mike sells for 34.26 ETH (~$105k USD) in a reserved sale from Rewkang_Vault.
This move of the first ever rare pepe - the ‘Nakamoto Card’ - comes almost exactly 24 hours after one sold for 45 WETH.
Six Squiggles
After Snowfro announced next week’s incoming final Squiggle (#9999), the collection ‘Chromie Squiggle’ sees 6 sales for 21.25 ETH (avg: 3.54 ETH) to 6 unique collectors, nudging current list to 3.5 ETH.
Disruptive Monument
‘Monument’ /128 by Hideki Tsukamoto with The Disruptive Gallery and Art Blocks Engine mints out at 0.1 ETH each, 12.8 ETH total. 6 secondary sales are in for 0.72 ETH (avg: 0.12 ETH) total with current list at 0.1 ETH.
Via Hideki Tsukamoto:
“For Monument, I wanted to invoke a feeling of unfathomable brightness at scale… I wanted the drawing primitive, at the atomic level, to be light based, not to be a circle or a straight line such as one can create with drawing applications. I wanted my primitive to be bokeh - a vibrant and beautiful byproduct of a photographic lens.”
Full Haus
‘Pepehaus’ by Movsum with Ninfa reaches its conclusion with 21 artworks selling for 4.7 ETH on primary, plus a secondary sale of ‘Pepehaus #11’ for 0.5 ETH.
Via Movsum:
“The purpose of creating this collection for me was to give respect not only to digital art and to bridge the gap between the avant-garde of the 20th century and the avant-garde of the 21st century digital art. But I wanted to show power and appreciation to artists like Batz, Darkfarms, and other great artists who believe in this space and meme as well as all the other great artists who are not full artists in the direction of meme art but are making great contributions to the future and to this space.”
Collection: Highlights
‘Orbit’ /500 by Jiannan Huang: 25.26 ETH volume, list: 3.5 ETH
LIVE (Fakewhale Gallery) - ‘uncertain index’ by p1xelfool
LIVE (Manifold) - ‘Jack Dorsey - Decentral Eyes - Safe Passage Variant’ by Coldie: 191/240 minted
LIVE (Verse) - ‘春分 | Equinox’ by Aluan Wang
INCOMING (MakersPlace) - ‘Corrupted Cognition’ by Brian Cattelle
INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - ‘We Are Still Here’ by IWAN///
1/1: Highlights
‘EveWebster373’ by Mike Tyka: 3 ETH to collect.eth
‘Moral Compass’ by Jesperish: 6k XTZ | ~$4,435 USD to Maxwell
‘Mars’ by Goldcat: 5k XTZ | ~$3,696 USD to toshi
‘BLINXX #004’ by HYBLINXX: 15 SOL | ~$2,113 USD to Shake Vault
‘Joyful Awakening’ by Yura Miron: 0.5 ETH to sith
‘Impression’ (Mar, 2020 SR) by Thato: 0.45 ETH to colborn
‘Superficial’ by Michelle Thompson: 0.3 ETH to FlyingBeagle
LIVE (SuperRare) - ‘Strings Dividing Encased Figurines' by Botto: 2.46 ETH bid, ends 4:00pm ET
LIVE (Foundation) - ‘Synesthetic Tracers’ by Cerspense: 1 ETH bid, ends Wed
1/1/X: Highlights
‘PEGZ’ /103 by Matt Furie: 2.9276 WETH to Lovell_xyz
‘Memories of Qilin’ /1,024 (Art Blocks) by Emily Xie: 1.75 WETH to 0xCold_Vault
‘Anticyclone’ /800 (Art Blocks) by William Mapan: 1.9 WETH to assembly-hotwallet.eth
‘Themes and Variations’ /500 by Vera Molnár with Martin Grasser: 5 sales for 9.14 ETH (avg: 1.83 ETH) to single collector, list: 2.43 ETH
‘alignDRAW’ /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 1.7, 0.66 & 0.66 WETH, 0.74 ETH
‘The Harvest’ /400 (Art Blocks) by Per Kristian Stoveland: 1.5 ETH to Malibu_Ken
‘DeepBlack’ /3,074: 0.88 & 0.87 ETH, 0.46 & 0.45 WETH
‘Cargo’ /999 (Art Blocks) by Kim Asendorf: 0.8 ETH to suzyan.eth
‘Terraforms’ /9,911 by Mathcastles: 6 sales for 3.55 ETH (avg: 0.59 ETH)
‘Fluctuations’ /1,257 by Aleo: 0.5 WETH
Edition: Highlights
‘OBLIVION’ /500 by XCOPY: 0.41 ETH → 0.43 WETH (same edition)
‘LetsWalk’ by DeeKay: 0.35 ETH
‘Station3 Patron’ /959 by Grant Yun: 0.3001 WETH to Blumarine
‘Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA Dreams — D #48’ by Refik Anadol: 0.27 WETH to RoulioL
‘The Grail’ /50 (PROOF) by Craig Mullins: 0.2 WETH
Closing Thoughts
Two Nakamotos in a row! A rare event.
Plenty to observe across primary collections and exhibitions and secondary activity. A few interesting 1/1s on Tezos as well. Will be live shortly to discuss.
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