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  • JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace (Beeple)

    03/11/2021 11:35:09 AM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 49 replies
    New York Times ^ | 03/11/2021 | Scott Reyburn
    “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” by the artist known as Beeple, set a record for a digital artwork in a sale at Christie’s. After a flurry of more than 180 bids in the final hour, a JPG file made by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, was sold on Thursday by Christie’s in an online auction for $69.3 million with fees. The price was a new high for an artwork that exists only digitally, beating auction records for physical paintings by museum-valorized greats like J.M.W. Turner, Georges Seurat and Francisco Goya. Bidding at the two-week Beeple sale,...