24 HOURS OF ART: Thursday Highlights
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 10/2 - 10/3
Autoglyph Alerts
‘Autoglyph #164’ is now in the Neon Collection via private sale through cryptoart broker Fountain.
The Autoglyph activity is not stopping anytime soon.
Sotheby’s announces ‘Algorithmic Primitivism: Autoglyphs - A Set of Seven Types’, the first time a set of seven goes to auction. The set comes via the Collection of Seedphrase, and the October 7th - 10th auction will have no buyer’s premium.
Sotheby’s Contemporary Closes
‘Contemporary Discoveries’ closes at Sotheby’s. Highlights:
‘Ceremoney of Life’ by Other World: 18,000
‘Laundry Day’ by Osinachi (in partnership with MakersPlace): 11,400
‘Twin Flames #37. Anais Belle & Madeleine Anne’ by Justin Aversano: 11,400
‘Forever’ by Mad Dog Jones: 8,400
‘Elevated Deconstructions #17’ by luxpris: 5,400
Via Rob (MakersPlace):
“[Laundry Day by Osinachi] had 29 consecutive bids - the highest number of bids on any of the digital artworks in the auction!”
mmERCH Makes Moves
‘The Ultra-Luxe Five’ by mmERCH x Seedphrase close at Christie’s for $37,674 total, each exceeding its high estimate, with ‘Hoodie 000’ seeing a high sale of $15,120. Each of the claimable physical hoodies pairs with a unique Claire Silver artwork.
Meanwhile, ‘The Seedphrase Collection’ pushes closer to sellout with 235/322 minted for 0.296 ETH each.
Collection: Highlights
The Memes by 6529 - ‘Brain’ by 6529er and 6529: mints out 333 editions for 0.06529 ETH each, 20 secondary sales, list: 0.1 ETH
‘Terraforms’ /9,911 by Mathcastles: 18 sales for 10.56 ETH, list: 0.64 ETH
LIVE (AOTM) - ‘Des/Conectados’: Curated collection of leading Brazilian artists
LIVE (ClickCreate) - ‘Utopia Identity’ by Lord, curated by Pravijn: 92/95 minted
LIVE (Feral File) - ‘Patterns of Flow’
LIVE (Highlight x Shape) - ‘Noodlz’ by Harvey Rayner: 166 minted
LIVE (Notable Pepes) - Series 7: Pepelangelo (73/100 minted) & Pepenardo (82/100 minted)
LIVE (SuperRare) - ‘In Screens’ by Infiniteyay
LIVE (Transient Labs x Shape) - ‘DeePle’ by DeeKay: 78 minted
LIVE (Verse) - ‘The Swarm: 1.618’ by Yoshi Sodeoka
INCOMING (ETERNAL x Foundation) - ‘IMMUTABLE’
INCOMING (Notable Pepes) - Series 7: RARE SCRILLA & YOTET
1/1: Highlights
‘White Flower | 白花’ by Derech: 9 ETH
‘Silent Skyline’ by Efdot: 4.5 ETH to pukalisa.eth
‘Existence’ by Timmboslice: 2 ETH to pukalisa.eth
‘Intuition’ by Diane Lindo: 2 ETH
‘AFTERNOON COFFEE AT CAFE CARCOSA’ by ANDRÉS DEL VECCHIO: 34k RARE | ~$3.9k USD to superrarejohn
‘Madonna with a smartphone’ (Dec 2021) by Pascal Boyart: 1.33 WETH
‘the V01D / 022-002’ (March 2021 SR) by Joshua Davis: 1.25 ETH to iki_jima
‘SHAPE // 0004’ by SHL0MS: 1.111 ETH to bsy.eth
‘JESUS TAKE MY BAGS’ by C4RDINAL: 1.05 ETH
‘INTERBEING [ABATTOIR]’ by C4RDINAL: 1 ETH to anrc.eth
‘SAVE IT TO THE CLOUD’ by C4RDINAL: 1 ETH to anrc.eth
‘Boundless’ by Omar Z Robles: 1 ETH to mateo77.eth
‘The mind is its own place’ by Bezmiar: 0.4628 ETH to max pretends
‘Cosmic Wanderer’ by George Boya x Arthr: 0.4 ETH to Basileus
‘The Sleeper’ by Solyaev: 0.35 ETH to MediciEmerging
‘purgatory room VIII’ by braindead.gif: 0.333 ETH to superrarejohn
PRIVATE SALES - Paper Buddha: Nine 1/1 artworks pre-sold
LISTED (SuperRare) - ‘Gas Station’ (July 2022) by Grant Yun: 19 ETH list from saveee
LIVE (SuperRare) - ‘Measured Confrontation at Formica Feast’ by Botto: 1.69 ETH bid, ends Fri 4:00pm ET
LIVE (Ninfa) - ‘Pendulum II’ by A-Mashiro: 1 ETH bid, ends 11:51pm ET
1/1/X: Highlights
‘REMNANTS’ /250 by XCOPY: 6 WETH → 5.85 WETH (same artwork)
‘Winds of Yawanawa’ /1k by Refik Anadol: 4.65 WETH to Ryan_L1
‘The Harvest’ /400 (Art Blocks) by Per Kristian Stoveland: 2.42 ETH
‘Life In West America’ /500 (BrainDrops) by Roope Rainisto: 2.36 ETH
‘Human Unreadable’ /400 (Art Blocks) by Operator: 1.498 ETH & 0.6272 WETH
‘Petro National’ /195 (Art Blocks) by John Gerrard: 1.33 ETH to rege_eth
‘BURNER’ /255 by James Bloom: 1.2 ETH
‘alignDRAW’ /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 1.15 & 1.0171 WETH
‘Pebbles’ /1k (NextGen 6529) by Zeblocks: 1 ETH, 0.9, 0.85 & 0.8 WETH
‘Edifice’ /976 (Art Blocks) by Ben Kovach: 0.925 ETH
‘Cargo’ /999 (Art Blocks) by Kim Asendorf: 0.6 WETH to ffcbr
‘Contractions’ /280 (Art Blocks) by Loie Hollowell: 0.58 WETH
‘Chimera’ /986 (Art Blocks) by mpkoz: 0.5755, 0.5675, 0.561 & 0.561 WETH
‘DeepBlack’ /3,074: 0.5475 ETH
‘The Currency’ /2,045 by Damien Hirst: 0.5205 WETH to tiffytutu95
Edition: Highlights
‘Afterburn’ /870 by XCOPY: 2.23 ETH to owliowl
‘EXIT STRATEGY’ /420 (The Memes by 6529) by XCOPY: 2 WETH
‘Reply Guy’ /20 (The 140 Collection) by Twitter: 0.99 ETH
‘“Epiphany”’ /50 (PROOF) by Jack Butcher: 0.95 ETH
‘CRAWLER’ /253 by XCOPY: 0.85 & 0.7777 ETH
‘OBLIVION’ /460 by XCOPY: 0.776 ETH
‘MAX PAIN’ /5,543 by XCOPY: 0.731, 0.731, 0.7304 & 0.7303 ETH, 0.6633 WETH
‘keep warm’ /25 (452b reserve) by die with the most likes: 0.6 WETH
‘Queen of Silence’ /5 by Hackatao: 0.42 WETH → 0.6 ETH (same edition)
‘Kaliban’ /23 by Hackatao: 0.375 WETH → 0.585 ETH (same edition)
‘The Socially Umpired Animals’ /365 (The Memes by 6529) by Botto: 0.51 ETH to dsoeirosanches.eth
‘Build What Feels Good’ /350 (The Memes by 6529) by Ryan Anderson: 0.38 ETH to Justbreadd
‘Open Roads, Open Metaverse’ /555 (The Memes by 6529) by Scobel: 0.35 ETH to Justbreadd
‘SeizeJPGs’ /1k (The Memes by 6529) by 6529er: 0.35 & 0.3 ETH
‘GIFT GOAT’ /1,110 by Beeple x VeeFriends: $748 & $719 to kstar69
‘A Cube’ by Pak: $651 to eternalyst
‘Optional Truth’ /58 by Skygolpe: $590 to eternalyst
‘A Meditation on GM’ /469 (The Memes by 6529) by Ayla El-Moussa: 0.2499 ETH
Closing Thoughts
The art market continues its strong week across auction houses, collection highlights, and 1/1 sales. Uptober may not be a thing (yet) across crypto, but art is holding up its end of the bargain.