Beeple, pseudonym of the American artist Mike Winkelmanachieved a record never before equaled when in 2021 it sold a purely digital work, in NFT (non-fungible token), for 69 million dollars under the title “Every day: The first 5000 days”.
Later, in mid-2022, Beeple and pop star Madonna teamed up to co-make a new NFT project: three highly graphic 3D-rendered videos of Madonna titled “Mother of Nature,” “Mother of Nature,” Evolution” and “Mother of Technology”.
Generates expectation a work of Andy Warhol, “Little Electric Chair”, 1964, a painting based on a 1953 press photograph, showing the empty death chamber at Sing Sing prison. It is the definitive image of the celebrated “Death and Disaster” series and is among the artist’s most impactful and powerful works. Its value is estimated between 4 and 6 million dollars according to the Christie’s statement.
On the other hand, the auction of “The Beginning of Banality” a 1988 sculpture by the artist Jeff Koonsstarring a little pig and three children, made of polychrome wood, valued between two and three million dollars.
These are works belonging to the collection of adam lindemanwhich will be auctioned at an evening sale, kicking off the spring season in New York City, with a portion of the proceeds going to the hall dedicated to the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and North, Central, and South of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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