The Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg joined the crypto art on Tuesday by selling several virtual copies of masterpieces in its first NFT (

Non-Fungible Token

)

auction

.

According to the local press, the main Russian museum sold

Leonardo da Vinci's

Madonna Litta

for $ 150,500 (

about 127,000 euros at current exchange rates

), when the starting price was $ 10,000 (more than 8,400 euros).

The buyer of the digital canvas of the Renaissance genius, which bore the signature of the director of the Hermitage

and the exact date and time of the signature to prove the uniqueness of the pieces

, was Anonymous_8zz0.

The auction, organized jointly with the Binance platform, also allowed interested parties to buy

Composition VI

(

Composition VI

) by Vasili Kandinsky for $ 80,000 (67,500 euros) or

Lilac Bush

(

The Lilacs

) by Vincent Van Gogh for 75,000 (about 63,300 euros). ).

Auction

In addition, they paid $ 74,000 (62,460 euros) by

Corner of the Garden in Montgeron

(

Corner of the Garden at Montgeron

) by Claude Monet and $ 65,000 (54,850 euros) by

Judit

Giorgione.

The director of the Hermitage,

Mikhail Piotrovski,

denied that the museum is considering raising large amounts of money from the auction.

For each painting, two copies of

NFT

were created

.

One was stored in the Hermitage and the second was put up for auction,

money that will go to the collection of the gallery

.

NFTs are a special type of cryptographic digital file that represents something unique and cannot be interchangeable, such

as cryptocurrencies or other tokens that are fungible.

This allows the creation of unique, indivisible, transferable digital works of art with the ability to prove their scarcity

, thus becoming a new type of merchandise that could revolutionize the art market.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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