Christie's closed its first auction of a fully digital artwork on Thursday, selling for
58.6 million euros ($ 70 million)
"
Everydays: The First 5000 Days
" by artist
Beeple
, which has broken records in the new market of the NFT (Non-Fungible Token or cryptographic token), which uses "
blockchain
"
technology
to certify its originality.
Christie's digital auction closed at 58 million euros (69.346 million dollars), a millionaire record that far exceeds the one obtained a weeks ago by the Spanish-American investor
Pablo Rodríguez Fraile
, who sold a piece of NFT video-art from Beeple for 5.5 million euros ($ 6.6 million).
Mike Winkelmann
, Beeple's real name, celebrated a "historic day" on Twitter, consolidating NFTs and digital art as a new mode of investment and acquisition in the art world.
Christie's recalled that the figure reached today places Beeple, until recently unknown digital creator, "among the three most valued living artists in the world", at the height of figures of the stature of
David Hockney or Jeff Koons.
NFTs are digital assets created in "
blockchain
" that allow digital art to be certified as a unique piece, which also maintains all its history of sale and origin, thus becoming a digital collector's item that cannot be duplicated. without losing that certification of originality.
This technology, which Beeple has confessed not to know five months ago, opens up an infinity of possibilities for those who consider digital content as or more valuable than physical content.
NFTs have created a large market for the sale of digital art, as well as collectible digital content, from
crypto kittens
to NBA dunk videos, which in some cases sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
"This type of art is
almost impossible to falsify
and its origin and originality is clear, something that with traditional art is not always the case and requires experts and third parties to certify the work," he explained in a recent interview with Efe Rodríguez Fraile.
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