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Art and breaking news from the world’s leading auction house. Visit our salerooms and galleries around the world, entry is free.
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Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Salvator Mundi achieves $450,312,500, a #worldauctionrecord for any work of art sold at auction.
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.@beeple 's 'The First 5000 Days', the 1st purely digital NFT based artwork offered by a major auction house has sold for $69,346,250, positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists. Major Thanks to @beeple + @makersplaceco. More details to be released shortly.
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NFT friends are the best friends, can't wait to see you all at the sale in two hours. 👇 Show us your best looks as we wait #SUITSON4CHRISTIES.
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We're proud to announce the sale of Art Blocks Curated: Sets 1-3, as part of the Post-War to Present auction in New York on 1 October. Bidding for this lot will be conducted live in ETH—a first for any leading auction house. #NFTs #digitalart #onlineauction @artblocks_io
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9 rare CryptoPunks from @LarvaLabs own collection to star in our 21st Century Evening Sale this May in NY. All mint numbers under 1k and yes there is a rare Alien! Punks 2, 532, 58, 30, 635, 602, 768, 603, 757 #CryptoPunks. More at:
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#AuctionUpdate The first AI artwork to be sold in a major auction achieves $432,500 after a bidding battle on the phones and via ChristiesLive
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#AuctionUpdate Edward Hopper's iconic 'Chop Suey' achieves a staggering $91,875,000, a new #WorldAuctionRecord for the category of American Art
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Christie's is proud to offer "Everydays - The First 5000 Days" by @beeple as the first purely digital work of art ever offered by a major auction house. Bidding will be open from Feb 25-Mar 11. Learn more here | NFT issued in partnership w/ @makersplaceco
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#AuctionUpdate 9 rare CryptoPunks from Larva Labs' own collection makes history realizing $16,962,500
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.@ChristiesInc is honored to announce that .@Metakovan, the founder and financer of .@Metapurse, the largest NFT fund in the world, was the winning bidder of @beeple’s THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, for $69.3 m (42329.453 ETH). Read more here:
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#AuctionUpdate Curio Cards, a set of 31 NFTs considered to be the oldest artworks on the Ethereum blockchain sold for ETH 393 (USD$1,267,320) in our Post-War to Present sale — marking the 1st auction with live bidding to be conducted in Ether
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We are thrilled to partner with @radiohead @thomyorke to present artworks by @StanleyDonwood who has created the cover art for #Radiohead's ground-breaking albums since The Bends in 1996. The paintings will be offered this October in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art.
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The David Gilmour Guitar Collection totaled US$21,490,750, with all the proceeds benefiting @ClientEarth. Thank you to all the fans today for an incredible 8-hour auction with bidders from 66 countries around the world!
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We're excited to announce No Time Like Present, an online auction featuring the very first NFT sale in Asia offered by an international auction house. #nft #nftartist #nftart #nftcollector #nftcommunity #nonfungible #digitalart #blockchain #crypto #cryptoart #artist #larvalabs
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As part of our Post-War to Present sale on 1 October in NYC, we're proud to present a full set of Curio Cards, which are 30 Non-Fungible Tokens considered to be some of the oldest artworks on the Ethereum blockchain. #NFTs #cryptoart #digitalart #art #artist
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Christie’s New York is thrilled to present for the first time, a Bitcoin ordinals online auction: Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB) @OrdinalMaxiBiz. The sale features a grouping of works selected by creator @ZK_shark. We’re offering unique 1/1 PFPs of varying eye color traits consisting of.
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Every single day for the last 13 years, the digital artist Beeple has created a unique artwork from start to finish as part of his monumental ongoing series, EVERYDAYS. This month, we will of. #beeple #digitalart #digitalartist #artist #art #thefirst5000days #nft @beeple_crap
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The first ever global auction house to host fully on-chain sales: introducing Christie’s 3.0. Built from the ground up together with three leading companies in the Web3 community @manifoldxyz , @chainalysis & @spatialxr. (1/4).
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Thankful for our NFT friends for putting your #SUITSON4CHRISTIES! No Time Like Present to take a final look at the sale before bids close.
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Keep showing us your #SUITSON4CHRISTIES! Bid on the @BoredApeYC NFTs in our No Time Like Present now until 28 Sept at 11am HKT.
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The @_DavidGilmour Guitar Collection opens in #London on 27 March. Are you ready? #GilmourGuitars. Discover all the guitars:
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#AuctionUpdate #TylerHobbs' 'Fidenza #724' realised £365,400, a #WorldAuctionRecord for the artist. Channelling inspiration from art history and nature into innovative computer code, this extraordinary #generative artwork forms part of a collection of 999 #NFTs. @tylerxhobbs
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And we're off! This morning marks a historic moment in the history of digital art and NFTs. Bidding started on @beeple's 'Last 5000 Days' at $100 and shot up to $1million in less than 10 minutes. Stay tuned over the next 14 days at @makersplaceco.
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Christie's is excited to announce that, for the first time, it will accept Ether as a payment option for the sale of @beeple's 'First 5000 Days.' We are grateful to @beeple +@makersplace for its partnership on this monumental sale🚀.
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We've shattered the $100 million ceiling in #NFT sales worldwide. Pushing us over this historic mark was the record-setting success of our first-ever NFT auction in Asia, which closed online in Hong Kong on 28 September and achieved a total of HK$122 Million (USD $15.6M).
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The @worldofwomennft community is turning looks💅. Show us your #suitson4christies. #TheTimeIsWoW #WoWatChristies
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The legendary Black Strat achieves $3,975,000, establishing a new #WorldAuctionRecord for any guitar sold at auction #GilmourGuitars
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My Life in Guitars: @_DavidGilmour plucks some pearls of wisdom from his long history with guitars. #GilmourGuitars
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.@_DavidGilmour’s black Fender Stratocaster #guitar has taken on a life of its own. This is its story.
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Update: The Buyer of @Beeple’s 'First 5000 Days' will be identified later this afternoon at 1pm EST. Stay tuned.
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#AuctionUpdate Ernie Barnes ‘The Sugar Shack sets an auction record for the artist this evening, 27x the previous record set by the artist. After over 10 minutes of bidding by up to 22 bidders, the piece realized $15.275 million.
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Shine on you crazy diamonds! Select #guitars from The @_DavidGilmour Guitar Collection will be on display at our #LosAngeles gallery from 7–11 May. Entry is free and there’s no need to book. #GilmourGuitars
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#AuctionUpdate In an exciting end to our 21st Century Evening Sale, Refik Anadol’s ‘Living Architecture: Casa Batlló’ NFT realized $1.38 million
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The @_DavidGilmour Guitar Collection opens in #NewYork on 14 June. Are you ready? #GilmourGuitars. Book your free entry ticket:
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Now open: Select guitars from The @_DavidGilmour Guitar Collection are on view in #LosAngeles until 11 May. Entry is free and there’s no need to book: #GilmourGuitars. 📷 Courtesy of Jill Furmanovsky Archive.
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Enter the world of Augmented Intelligence, Christie's first auction solely offering artworks created with AI. Featuring works from @refikanadol, @clairesilver12, @vanarman, @hollyherndon @matdryhurst and more, the sale challenges us to rethink the limits of artistic agency.
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On 1 March, the beginning of Women's History Month, Christie's is selling a rare NFT created by @worldofwomennft, an artist and an online community on a mission to rebalance gender representation in the digital realm. Read more here:
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The Oppenheimer Blue diamond sold for $57.5 million (CHF56,837,000) the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction.
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The @_DavidGilmour Guitar Collection opens in #London on 27 March. Book your free entry ticket: #GilmourGuitars
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🔊 Join us at 7pm BST tonight to watch the livestream of the official charity auction Sixty Years of James Bond: Part I! Watch live here: @007. 📸 NO TIME TO DIE © 2021 Danjaq, LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved
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#WorldRecord: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Untitled’ has achieved the highest price for any work on paper by the artist, selling in the room for US$22,950,000 during tonight’s 21st Century Evening Sale in New York City. #2021NY
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David Hockney's 'Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)' makes a splash and sets a new #WorldAuctionRecord for a living artist, receiving $90,312,500 at auction
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#AuctionUpdate Katsushika Hokusai's 'Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) [“Great Wave”]' earns $471,000, two times its low estimate #AsianArtWeek
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‘These guitars have given so much to me’ – @_DavidGilmour introduces some of the guitars that inspired his best-loved songs: #GilmourGuitars
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Super excited to present @lphaCentauriKid ’s screenprint ‘The Muse’ featuring the one and only Emma Watson in our Post War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 18 Nov. See online now and in person starting 12 Nov #ItsMuseSeason
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Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 21st century, will be offered in New York:
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#AuctionUpdate Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ breaks the #WorldAuctionRecord for the most expensive 20th century work sold at auction; price realized $195 million
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22 million people tuned in for the final moments of @Beeple's historic sale this morning, which totaled $69.3 million. Relive it from the artist's POV in this link! #beeple #digitalart #digitalartist #artist #art #thefirst5000days #nft
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Suit up friends, #TheTimelsWoW!.@worldofwomennft x @Christieslnc is coming your way. #SuitsOn4Christies. And no better way than a community vote.make your pick by 4pmGMT! ->>.
What does Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Franz Marc, Bridget Riley, Banksy, David Hockney, and World of Women have in common?. They will all have a piece auctioned at the upcoming @ChristiesInc exclusive Evening Sale✨.
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Watch the moment Jeff Koons’s ‘Rabbit’ sets a new #WorldAuctionRecord for a work by a living artist.
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Christie’s is grateful to acknowledge the generous support of APENFT and TRON as the supporting sponsor of tomorrow’s Art + Tech Summit #christiesarttech2021 @apenftorg @tronfoundation @justinsuntron.
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The George Michael Collection has realised a combined total of £11,328,125 across the spirited evening auction and online platform. Proceeds from the sale will be used to continue George Michael’s philanthropic work.
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Beeple | The First 5000 Days is open for bidding until11 March at 10am EST! 💥. #beeple #digitalart #beeplepeople #digitalartist #artist #art #thefirst5000days #nft #blockchainart #blockchain @beeple_crap
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Discover the acoustic #guitars that have played a part in @_DavidGilmour’s development as a musician, and in some of his most famous songs: #GilmourGuitars
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#AuctionUpdate Untitled, the largest example from Cy Twombly’s legendary Bacchus series, sells for $46,437,500.
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The first of two sales of The Roger Federer Collection raised a spectacular £1,329,375 for @rogerfedererfdn which supports educational projects in southern Africa and Switzerland:
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Over 120 #guitars from @_DavidGilmour’s personal collection come to auction – including the 'Black Strat' that played on @pinkfloyd's ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’: #GilmourGuitars
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#AuctionUpdate The @GeorgeMOfficial Collection sells for £9,264,000, with proceeds going to extend the singer’s extraordinary philanthropic legacy: #GeorgeMichaelChristies
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Christie’s is excited to share that Justin Sun, Founder of Tron, will speak at tomorrow’s Art + Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond #christiesarttech2021 @justinsuntron @tronfoundation.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's exceptional stretcher bar painting 'The Italian Version of Popeye has no Pork in his Diet' has sold for $32,035,000 during the #21stCenturyEveningSale
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Christie’s 3.0 presents Next Wave: The Miami Edit, a curated auction of over 15 newly created works by digital artists including Andres Serrano (@apoliticalorg), @cathsimard_ , @luispon_c, @dave_krugman and many more. (1/4)
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#AuctionUpdate in our Japanese and Korean sale in #NewYork, Katsushika Hokusai's 'Gaifu Kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) ["Red Fuji"]' realizes $507,000, five times its low estimate #AsianArtWeek
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#WorldRecord René Magritte’s seminal ‘L’empire des lumières’ shatters the record price for any work by the artist and any Surrealist work of art, selling for US$121,160,000 after nearly 10 minutes of bidding, closing out MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN Part I. #2021NY
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Last night, artists and collaborators gathered at Christie's New York to celebrate the opening of Augmented Intelligence. This first-of-its-kind sale embraces the new technologies available to artists across mediums, and the innovative creators catalyzing this growing movement.
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#AuctionUpdate Robert Alice's 'Block 21 (42.36433° N, -71.26189° E) (from Portraits of a Mind)' -- a work based on Blockchain technology -- sold for $131,250 and achieved more than 7x its high estimate.
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#AuctionUpdate @ChristiesInc sets a #WorldAuctionRecord for a #TyrannosaurusRex named #STAN which sold for $31,847,500 #crushing the estimate of $6-8M.
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Read an interview with Cozomo de' Medici (@CozomoMedici), the 'grand patron' of the digital art renaissance at the link below. The pseudonymous digital art collector sat down with Christie's to chat about the future of art on the blockchain:
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Claude Monet's fabulous, repoussoir 'Moulin de Limetz' has sold for $21,685,000 during the #20thCenturyEveningSale
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Thrilled to be offering WoW #5672 at our London 20th Century Evening Sale next month! #NFTThursday.
The WoW fam has spoken through the DAWoW: WoW #5672 has been selected to be auctioned at @ChristiesInc Evening Sale!. Congratulations 🍾. Thanks to everyone who voted and made history.
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The #11thHour auction w/@LeoDiCaprio features works donated by30 top artists to benefit #environment & #wildlife 5/13 http://t.co/FD5TJHg8vi.
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Over 200 artworks from @GeorgeMichael’s private collection will be offered in London in March. Highlights are on view in New York until 11 February. #GeorgeMichaelChristies
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In celebration of Women's History Month, join us today at 7.30PM for 'Empowering women in the web 3 world' a webinar featuring @worldofwomennft ahead of the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on March 1. Register here:
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#AuctionRecord From the Paul G. Allen Collection Gustav Klimt’s ‘Birch Forest’ set an auction record for the artist with a price realized of $104.585 million
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Announcing Next Wave: The Miami Edit, featuring artworks by a curated group of 24 artists at the forefront of digital art today. Working with a diverse range of mediums, each artist has crafted a signature style that is widely recognized in the contemporary digital art space.
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We are thrilled to present the ‘Bright Moments 2021-2024 Complete Works’ a collection of 216 unique generative and AI artworks, set to be auctioned in our Post-War to Present Live Auction in London on June 27th. @brtmoments
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In a week since going live, @beeple's 'First 5000 Days' has climbed from a staring bid of $100 to $3.5 million. Tune in to see what happens in the final week at #NFTs @makersplaceco.
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#AuctionUpdate THE WINSTON PINK LEGACY realises $50,375,000, achieving a #WorldAuctionRecord price per carat for a pink #diamond
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#AuctionUpdate: Beeple's (b. 1981) 'HUMAN ONE' has achieved $28,985,000 at auction. Over the course of his lifetime, Beeple intends to seamlessly add to and evolve the pool of imagery in 'HUMAN ONE' in response to current events — creating an eternally contemporary work of art.⠀
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Join the Punk Hunt! We've teamed with @saveartspace to present Pixelated, a month-long, New York City-wide public art exhibition of Larva Labs' CryptoPunks. Visit the link for the location of each CryptoPunk ahead of our sale of 9 CryptoPunks tomorrow:
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#christiesarttech2021 summit kicks off with @justinsuntron remarking “I believe in the next 10-20 years the most valuable artworks will not just be Picasso and Monet- classic artists - but will also belong to the artists familiar with NFTs and AI and new technologies.”
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NOW OPEN: Discover The @_DavidGilmour Guitar Collection in New York until 19 June. #GilmourGuitars. Book your free entry ticket here:
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#AuctionUpdate: From our 20th Century Evening Sale, Mark Rothko’s ‘Untitled’ realizes $46.14M
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#AuctionUpdate: 'Au jardin, la famille de l'artist by Claude Monet (1840-1926) achieved $24,405,000 at auction. The work was painted in the summer of 1875, just a year after the First Impressionist Exhibition.
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We're proud to announce a partnership with digital artist FEWOCiOUS to present his latest collection, 'Hello, I'm Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life', a series of 5 new, unique NFT works to speaking to his personal experiences as a young, transgender artist.
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William Eggleston’s ‘Untitled, c. 1971–74', an exceptional example of his pioneering use of colour photography, has realised US$1,441,500, setting a new #WorldRecord for any work by the artist at auction during tonight’s 21st Century Evening Sale. #2021NY
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Christie's 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale will feature @tylerxhobbs 'Fidenza #724'. Channelling inspiration from art history and nature into innovative computer code, this extraordinary #generative artwork forms part of a collection of 999 #NFTs:
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#AuctionUpdate A new #WorldAuctionRecord for Sir Winston Churchill with 'Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque' (1943) selling for £8,285,000. This is the only painting created by Churchill during the Second World War:
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JACK BUTCHER: CHECKS ELEMENTS - THIS ARTWORK MAY OR MAY NOT BE NOTABLE. powered by @moonpay is now live for bidding!. ‘Earth’, ‘Air’, and ‘Water’ by @jackbutcher will be on view at Christie’s New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza from 20-23 May. Browse below:.
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Augmented Intelligence is now live for browsing! View the full sale below including newly announced works from @Grimezsz @bottoproject @soficrespo91 @annaridler @DeepBlackAI @EvergreenDazed, available exclusively at Christies. Browse and register here:
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Lot 1: Red, Blue, Green, and Orange Eye OMB Set from our Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB) @OrdinalMaxiBiz sale is now live for bidding! Check out this hand-picked set of PFPs and more from @ZK_shark by artists @ohareyoufat and @berkinbags below and on christie’s .com! . Available here:
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“Consensus is temporary.". One of @jackbutcher's works from his Checks Elements collection is up for bid now. The 152-piece, generative art collection of hand-drawn monoprints & non-fungible token pairs, explores the evolving relationship between consensus and truth.
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Vincent van Gogh's swirling 'Coin de jardin avec papillons' has sold for $33,185,000 during tonight's #20thCenturyEveningSale
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