NFT-famous SC artist Beeple cashes in again with a new multi-million sale at auction
A Charleston-based digital artist sold a piece with an NFT for $29 million Tuesday in an auction through the New York auction house Christie’s.
Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Charleston who goes by the name Beeple, created a hybrid art piece called “Human One,” a physical structure which displays an evolving non-fungible token.
The piece includes a person walking while wearing silver garb and a helmet. The figure walks through changing landscapes projected on the walls of a 4-by-4-foot box, according to financial magazine Barrons.
An online buyer in Switzerland bought the piece for $28.9 million, according to Barrons.
“He has created essentially a portal into his imagination, where he can have this kind of control over the narrative and comments on life as it unfolds,” Christie’s Head of Digital Art Noah Davis told Bloomberg Quicktake. “As Mike matures as an artist, and as the world spins, he will be able to reach out via the Internet and change the visual presentation of Human One forever. So this is a perpetually unfinished work of art.”
Earlier this year, Winkelmann’s digital collage, titled “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, sold for $69.3 million at auction.
This story was originally published November 10, 2021 at 1:57 PM.
