United Kingdom, March 12, 2021 /AlexaBlockchain/ – Beeple’s ‘EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS’, digital NFT artwork sold for $69,346,250 at the British auction house Christie’s, positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists.
About “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” NFT artwork
“Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a collage of all the images that Beeple has been posting online each day since 2007.
- This is the third-highest auction price achieved for a living artist, after Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
- Bidding at the two-week Beeple sale, consisting of just one lot, began at $100.
- A last-moment cascade of bids prompted a two-minute extension of the auction and pushed the final price over $60 million.
- Rebecca Riegelhaupt, a Christie’s spokeswoman, said 33 active bidders contested the artwork NFT.
Earlier this month, Crossroad, An NFT digital artwork by Beeple, created history by selling for a record price of $6.6 million on the secondary market.