Beeple's "The First 5,000 Days" digital artwork was sold for a jaw-dropping $69 million at Christie's auction today. This makes him one of the three most valuable living artists.
Beeple, an artist who made quite a few headlines as of late around the NFT hype, managed to get his ‘The First 5000 Days’ NFT sold for a whopping $69,346,250 at an auction on Christie’s.
Just a few hours ago, CryptoPotato reported that someone had bought a CryptoPunk NFT for $8 million.
Now, as the auction on “The First 5000 Days” – a digital art piece by the popular Beeple, closed for a whopping, record-breaking $69,346,250.
That’s more than anything that anyone has ever paid when it comes to NFTs and it’s definitely going to go down in history.
The artwork itself looks like this:
Everydays: The First 5000 Days by Beeple. Source: Christie’s
In essence, this is a combination of 5,000 images put together on a large digital canvas.
Beeple had created one digital picture every day for the last 5,000 days and combined them together in this piece.
It’s easily one of the most popular pieces of digital art that made plenty of headlines throughout the past couple of months.
At this point, it’s still not known who the buyer was.
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