“Every day, the first 5000 days,” by the artist known as Beeple, establish a record of digital illustrations at a Christie’s
After a burst of more than 180 offers at the final hour, a JPG file made by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, was sold on Thursday by Christie’s on an online auction for $ 69.3 million with rates. The price was a new tall for a work of art that exists only digitally, surpassing auction records for physical paints by the great value at the museum-like j.m.w. Turner, Georges Seurat and Francisco Goya. The offer on the sale of two weeks Beepere, which consists of only one lot, started at $ 100.
With the second remaining, the work was established to sell for less than $ 30 million, but a waterfall of the last minute offers caused a two-minute extension of the auction and pressed the final price of more than $ 60 million. Rebecca Riegelhaupt, Christie’s spokesman said that 33 active tenderers had challenged the work, and added that the result was the third-highest auction price achieved for a living artist, after Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
Billed by the auction house as “a unique work in the history of digital art”, “every day, the first 5000 days” is a collage of all the images that Beeple has been publishing online every day since 2007. The artist, which has collaborated with Louis Vuitton and Popstars as Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, use software to create an irreverent visual commentary in the life of the 21st century.
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