24 HOURS OF ART: Monday Highlights

Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 12/15 - 12/16

Dec 16, 2024

‘DOOM Party’ by XCOPY sells for 180 ETH (~$712,404) to rhynotic-vault from RFC_ART via LarryH.

Originally minted in 2020 with AsyncArt, the 1/1 artwork is the “Master” Layer of a dynamic art release. It displays a full canvas of choices made by “Participant” Layer collectors, as well as “Death’s Device” background and “Death’s Hand” collectors.

On November 5th, Rhynotic posts:
“‘DOOM Party’ / ‘The Rabble’ are my favorite XCOPY works as they could not exist without the blockchain.”

Then, just after completing the collection:
“You will end up buying native cryptoart at the price you deserve.”

The Last Verdandi

“…the last 2017 Verdandi directly from the artist. Only 13 exist of these grails of early 1/1 art on Ethereum.” prefaces Adam McBride.

On the 7th anniversary of Verdandi’s Artefacts, the 13th and final - ’‘Nice To Meet You’ - sells for 4 WETH to dmor0x in auction.

Via Verdandi:
“When I first came to Ethereum in 2017, I was inspired by the idea that my digital art could be ownable. There was no money back then and certainly, no one knew what an NFT was.

All that didn’t matter to me, I learned how to code myself and tokenized this collection.

I believed in the crypto culture and possibilities back then, I believe in it MORE today.”

Collection: Highlights

‘Opepen Edition’ /15.8k by Jack Butcher: 57 sales for 15.65 ETH, list: 0.26 ETH
‘MAX PAIN’ /5,171 by XCOPY: 15 sales for 11.15 ETH, list: 0.78 ETH
‘Terraforms’ /9,911 by Mathcastles: 10 sales for 9.7 ETH, list: 0.92 ETH
‘Checks - VV Edition’ /4,991 by Jack Butcher: 23 sales for 9.49 ETH, list: 0.47 ETH
‘Atlas’ /198 by Justin Aversano: 8 sales for 8.76 ETH, list: 2 ETH
‘The Currency’ /2,063 by Damien Hirst: 6 sales for 6.65 ETH, list: 1.38 ETH
‘CENTS’ /10k (Sovrn) by Rutherford Chang: 14 sales for 0.192 BTC, list: 0.013 BTC
LIVE (Christie’s) - ‘Next Wave’
LIVE (Christie’s) - ‘Post-War and Contemporary Art’
LIVE (Sotheby’s) - ‘Digital Art Day Auction’
INCOMING (Art Blocks) - ‘Box Light Studies’ by Zach Lieberman
INCOMING (Flamingo DAO) - ‘AM’ by Andrea Ciulu

1/1: Highlights

Be Well Waiting Room | On Latent Wallflowers… by Helena Sarin

‘Draw 25’ by Damien Jones: 5 ETH to Feisty-Doge
‘Rainbow Warrior 14,754’ (Nov 2022 SR) by Pindar Van Arman: 5 ETH to spartanblack_v1
‘On Latent Wallflowers: Art Is the Best DeFence’ (Oct 2021 SR) by Helena Sarin: 4.862 ETH to rfc_art
‘Nice To Meet You’ (Dec 2017) by VERDANDI: 4 WETH to dmor0x
‘Be Well Waiting Room’ (Sept 2021 SR) by Helena Sarin: 3.795 ETH to rfc_art
LIVE (Foundation) - ‘Tears of Giant’ by Raphael Erba: 1.5 ETH bid, ends 10:19am ET
ACTIVE OFFER (SuperRare) - ‘1996’ (June 2022 SR) by Socmplxd: 6.5 ETH offer from nerfpidgeyv4

1/1/X: Highlights

‘Winds of Yawanawa’ /1k by Refik Anadol: 7.5 ETH, 7.29 & 7.26 WETH
‘1935’ /100 (Bright Moments) by William Mapan: 3 WETH
‘Memories of Qilin’ /1,024 (Art Blocks) by Emily Xie: 2.06 WETH to lotto_player
‘Machine Hallucinations — NYC’ /1k by Refik Anadol: 1.97 ETH
‘Mutant Garden Seeder’ /513 by Harm van den Dorpel: 1.75 ETH to alsothefunnyguys.eth
‘Latent Ink’ /500 (Fellowship) by Eko33: 1.58 ETH & 1.1 WETH
‘EarlyGANs’ /190 by FAR: 0.041 & 0.02 BTC
‘Smoke and Mirrors - Collection of 78 Tarot Portraits’ /78 by Justin Aversano: 1.01 ETH to HeirToTheThrone
‘Cognition - Collection of 364 Paintings’ /364 by Justin Aversano: 1 & 0.69 ETH

Edition: Highlights

‘Guzzler’ /206 by XCOPY: 3.5 WETH
‘SAINT_LESS (Fire)’ /200 (NFTBoxes) by XCOPY: 1.6 ETH to Web_III
‘Afterburn’ /594 by XCOPY: 1.35 WETH to NFTButler_weirdo
‘BANG_BANG’ /249 by XCOPY: 0.94 WETH to onNFTsGallery
‘OBLIVION’ /446 by XCOPY: 0.867 & 0.8449 ETH to squiffs.eth
‘Quantum Memories : Noise B’ /282 by Refik Anadol: 0.48 ETH
‘Quantum Memories : Noise C’ /271 by Refik Anadol: 0.48 ETH
‘PROOF Collective’ /1k by PROOF: 0.46, 0.4568, 0.45 & 0.449 ETH
‘LetsWalk’ by DeeKay: 0.4 ETH to PICHI
‘Moving On’ /192 by FEWOCiOUS: $999 to niftynarwhal

Closing Thoughts

The week is off to a strong start with a classic 2020 XCOPY, a 2017 Verdandi, two 2021 Helena Sarin artworks, and a 2022 Pindar Van Arman changing hands. Not to mention a significant offer in for a 2022 Socmplxd. A day for the secondary 1/1 archives.

Incoming:

This week is the biggest one of the year for 24 Hours of Art! We’ll be announcing decisions for 2025, appearing on several X Spaces, and hosting a literal 24 hour show (seriously) beginning this Thursday at 12:00pm ET.

Here we go!

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