A digital artwork created by the artist Beeple has recently sold for a staggering $69,346,250. This is the most expensive digital artwork ever sold at auction and was sold by Christie’s Auction House in New York City on March 11th.
The artwork, entitled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days”, is a collage of Beeple’s work from the past 13 years. It includes five thousand unique images that have been digitally combined into one large piece. It took Beeple five thousand days to create this piece of digital art and it was put up for auction by Christie’s with an estimated sale price of $100,000 – $150,000.
However, the interest in this digital artwork was much greater than expected and bidders drove up the price over 69 million dollars. After more than 19 bids over a two day period the final bid came in at just over 69 million dollars and it was won by an anonymous bidder. This is an incredible result for Beeple as his digital art has now set a new record for the highest price ever paid for a digital artwork at auction.
The sale of this artwork is also significant as it marks a turning point in the art world. Digital art is becoming increasingly popular and accepted as being legitimate and valuable art form which can fetch high prices at auction. With this sale Christie’s has shown that they are willing to accept digital works of art and give them their rightful place alongside traditional physical works of art.
Who Bought The 70 Million Dollar Digital Art?
Despite being an anonymous bidder, speculation has suggested that either the founder of Tesla or Twitter Jack Dorsey may be responsible for purchasing this incredibly valuable work of art. However, there has been no confirmation so far as to who bought it or why they were willing to pay such an astronomical sum for it.
In conclusion, we may never know who purchased Beeple’s digital artwork for 70 million dollars but what we do know is that this sale marks a momentous milestone in the world of digital art and signals its acceptance into mainstream culture as being a valuable form of modern expression worthy of significant investment.