State of the Art
At the height of the NFT craze, the cost of some digital art surpassed that of the great masters’.
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The Merge
Pak
Cost: $91.8 million
Purchaser: 28,983 individuals
This work, by the anonymous artist or artist collective Pak, was purchased by 28,983 individual buyers in 312,686 discrete pieces. Going for a total of $91.8 million, it is the most expensive work by a living artist ever sold publicly, surpassing the previous record of $91.1 million held by Jeff Koons’s 1986 Rabbit sculpture at auction in 2019.
Everydays: The First 5000 Days
Beeple
Cost: $69.3 million
Purchaser: Vignesh Sundaresan
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