2023 Vox Media, LLC. [15] Some of the earlier images are hand drawn and not computer produced. found = true; initNewsletterSignup(); What I Found Isn't So Pretty", "How in the World Did a "Digital Artwork" Sell for $69 Million at Christie's? The painting, one of Magrittes famed Empire of Light canvases, sold in March 2022for 59.4 million pounds with fees, or about $79.7 million. A digital collage called "Everydays The First Five Thousand Days" by the artist Beeple sold for almost $70 million by Christie's in an online auction Thursday. var expirationMinutes = settings.expiration_minutes; Beeple NFT Fetches Record-Breaking $69 Million in Christie's Sale "Everydays The First 5000 Days," a composite work by the artist known as Beeple, will be for sale at Christie's. He started working on "Everydays" 13 years ago, with pen and paper, but. Organized in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. [13], Winkelmann was inspired by British artist Tom Judd and began the daily project on 1 May 2007. One vital difference with NFTs, however, is that these terms are hard-coded into the smart contract. Image courtesy of Christies. } closeSignupBar(); head.appendChild(link); function setNewsletterCookie(cookieName, value) { Only at that pointroughly 38 hours after the virtual hammer came down at Christieswas the NFT sale for Everydays technically complete. This is especially unwelcome news for artists in the US,which has never awarded a resale royalty right,save for California in the lone year of 1978. + '