At 18:00 on June 27, Andy Warhol's "Three Self-Portraits" NFT work was sold on Binance NFT for US$2.8 million. This is also the world's first NFT auction of Andy Warhol's works.
According to public information, Andy Warhol created the visual art movement Pop Art, and is regarded as an avant-garde artist who challenged traditional aesthetics and traditional art creation tools for decades. "Three Self-Portraits" is Andy Warhol What Erle created a few months before his death is one of the masterpieces of pop art. His ideas have greatly promoted the rise of the Internet and still have an important influence on the current Internet trend of thought.
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Andy Warhol "Three Self-Portraits"
Andy Warhol's "Three Self-Portraits" NFT was sold at the NFT auction jointly launched by Binance, Tron, and APENFT Foundation with the theme of "Genesis". This auction will start on June 24 and last for 5 days. In addition to Andy Warhol's "Three Self-Portraits", there are also 100 re-created versions of "Three Self-Portraits" created by NFT community artists, and 300 recreated versions of Dali's tribute to Dante's "Divine Comedy" engravings, with a total of more than 400 lots.
At present, the 100 NFT works re-created by TRON and APENFT community artists for "Three Self-Portraits" are also well received. The top three works with the highest bids are No. 67, No. 40 and No. 1. The bidding amounts are respectively 4BNB, 2BNB and 1.62BNB, the starting price of all works is 1BNB.
As one of the main supporters of this auction, TRON is one of the three major public chains in the world. It has developed and launched the TRC721 protocol, and combined with the world's largest distributed storage system BTFS, it has formed a complete NFT infrastructure. system. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, has been paying attention to and vigorously promoting the development of the NFT field. He once spent nearly 200 million yuan to auction well-known works of traditional artists and NFT artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol, Beeple, and Pak.
Another cooperative institution is the APENFT Foundation, which focuses on the NFTization and blockchainization of head artworks. Since its establishment, it has been favored by many people for its model innovation. Among them, Justin Sun has publicly expressed support and purchased it. Many paintings were donated to the APENFT Foundation for free to support the innovative practice of "art + blockchain". At present, the APENFT Foundation has completed cooperation with leading auction institutions such as Christie's, Sotheby's, NiftyGateway, and Binance NFT. Andy Warhol's "Three Self-Portraits" sold this time is one of APENFT's collections.
With the support of three leading platforms, the "Genesis" NFT auction has attracted widespread attention from inside and outside the industry and from the NFT community. The end of the auction also means that NFT is still popular in the middle of the year. With the successive entry of big-name companies, NFT is expanding to sports, games, entertainment and other fields through art, and is expected to become the most important platform for the implementation of blockchain technology. one of the scenes.
According to public data, as of June 27, the transaction volume of the NFT market exceeded 600 million US dollars, and more than 710,000 pieces of art were traded.
