72 HOURS OF ART
Digital Art Market Headlines, Artist & Collection Highlights, and Analysis from September 2nd - 4th
Return of the RD Report!
Experimenting with it in conjunction to ongoing Art Reports on X:
Cliff’s Notes on X
Links, images, and analysis added here on Substack
POLITICS IS BULLSHIT
Iconic Beeple /100 from THE FIRST DROP collection sells for 59 ETH
Still Windy
Winds of Yawanawa by Refik Anadol stays hot, sees 31 sales for 247.26 ETH
Art Blocks Action
Big Sales:
Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs: 75 WETH
Ringers by Dmitri Cherniak: 32 ETH
Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro: 29.5 ETH to Seedphrase
Big Volume:
Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro: 8 sales, 102.6 ETH
Gazers by Matt Kane: 4 sales, 54.22 ETH
XCOPY Bangers
Three XCOPY sales highlighted by Bangers and Crash, a 25 edition KnownOrigin 2021 mint, selling for 19 WETH to Scadd23. GOURMET SPICY for 8 WETH and Afterburn for 1.5 WETH.
Skulls of Pepe
Mannay x A. Marrast Sam Spratt homage collection sells out 51 skulls for 46.53 ETH
Alotta Auctions
3 days remain in Alotta Money Charity Auction hosted by Trevor Jones and MakersPlace. High bids:
404 by Pak: 8.25 ETH
son of alotta by NFN Kalyan: 5.77 ETH
Dollars Alotta Money by Pascal Boyart: 2.77 ETH
404 Underway
Patrick Amadon’s 404 Catalog September edition, including 1,442 artists, is complete and live. “Artists Collecting Artists” is month theme, includes support from 10+.
Destination: South Korea
NFT NOW The Gateway, DeeKay first solo exhibition, many others in South Korea
Collection Notes
6529 Meme Card OMboarding by Diogo Sampaio sells out 399 editions
Themes and Variations /499 by Vera Molnár: 10 sales, 24.28 ETH
Machine Hallucinations - NYC /1k by Refik Anadol: 10 sales, 12.08 ETH + $11,600
CryptoCubes /256 - pre-Art Blocks generative - by Han: 4 sales, 16.5 ETH
Highlight 1/1 Sales
Swan Lake by Samantha Cavet: 4 ETH to Batsoupyum
We Are by Terence Ntsako Maluleke: 2.5 ETH
The Ice Has Broken by Dennis Schmelz: 1.75 ETH to defisurfer
MOCAIC 2023 part of M○C△’s Fundraiser 2023: 1.727 ETH to raptornews
Conservatory & Summer by movsum: 1.3 ETH & 1.3 ETH
Ink Morphic I by miss al simpson: 1 ETH to flyingbeagle
Highlight Edition Sales
Terraforms Level 13 at {15, 26} by Mathcastles: 12.5 ETH
AB Elevated Deconstructions /200 by luxpris: 10.5 WETH
AB Archetype /600 by Kjetil Golid: 9.3 ETH
AB Meridian /1k by Matt DesLauriers: 7.1 ETH & 5.86 WETH
Opepen Edition by Jack Butcher: 6.98 & 6.76 ETH & 6.05 WETH
QQL Mint Pass /744: 6 WETH
Player /256 by Sam Spratt: 5.8, 5.75 & 5.36 WETH
AB Anticyclone /800 by William Mapan: 5 & 5 WETH
AB Subscapes /650 by Matt DesLauriers: 4 WETH
100 Untitled Spaces by Snowfro: 4 WETH
The Memes by 6529 Sgt. Pepe /420 by Arsonic: 3 WETH
Machine Hallucinations - Mars D /32 by Refik Anadol: $6,000
Closing Analysis
Art Blocks and Opepen Edition (Jack Butcher) were art market August constants, plus surges from a few highlight artists, most notably Sam Spratt and Refik Anadol.
September kicked off with a little bit of everything, didn’t it?
It’s hard not to fixate on Beeple’s (arguably) most iconic edition, POLITICS IS BULLSHIT. Released on Nifty Gateway in October, 2021 as part of his THE FIRST DROP entrance into the NFT space, its last sales came on July 29th when one collector bought two for 55.55 and 60 ETH. Seeing one change hands is an event.
From the collector side, it was Seedphrase making waves. He was responsible for a number of sales, including the 75 ETH Fidenza, and also a major buy, the Bold 29.5 ETH Squiggle.
Artists, builders, and collectors are all over the world in France for the Castle Party and Alotta exhibition, in South Korea for conferences, events and exhibitions.
While the overall market is still in bear mode, bright spots are apparent. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!