GOING ONCE. GOING TWICE: Sotheby's Digital Art Day Sale Auction Featuring Two CryptoPunks Ends Tomorrow!

As CryptoPunks pump on-chain, Sotheby’s is preparing to drop the gavel on its Digital Art Day Sale auction tomorrow, featuring two CryptoPunks!

Following a long NFT bear market and the subsequent memecoin season, NFTs are starting to catch a bid and regain some of that summer 2021 magic in 2024.

With NFTs being bought up, Sotheby’s Digital Art Day Sale auction is approaching its end, and everyone is eager to see the final bids on the two CryptoPunks that are up for grabs!

The first Punk on the auction block is CryptoPunk #244.Pic

CryptoPunk #244 is a three-attribute female punk with wild hair, purple lipstick, and regular shades.

The second Punk on the auction block is CryptoPunk #491.

CryptoPunk #491 is a three-attribute female punk with hot lipstick, half-shaved hair, and blue eye shadow.

“Embodying the philosophies of pseudonymity, community, and tradability that are essential to the blockchain ecosystem, and further representing the technology’s elegant simplicity, the CryptoPunks journey to non-fungible stardom situates the collection alongside Modern & Contemporary art that seeks to reflect the nascent culture of our time,” Sotheby’s VP and Head of Digital Art Michael Bouhanna wrote. “Simultaneously representing the original NFT community in the purest guise, Punks are the vanguard of our generation, challenging the maintained perspectives of artistic and cultural production. Creating a whole new audience for collecting art with digitally native collectors, Punks were born, and will continue to live, immutably, on the Ethereum blockchain."

 

At this time, CryptoPunks #244 and #491 have bids of $50,000 USD and $48,000 USD, respectively.

Web3 enthusiasts and art aficionados have until tomorrow at 2 P.M. EST to place their bids on these CryptoPunks and the other NFTs up for auction at Sotheby’s. For more information on the auction, visit Sotheby’s website here:  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/digital-art-day-sale-2

The Bored Ape Gazette will continue to follow Sotheby’s Digital Art Day Sale and will update you on the final sale prices for these CryptoPunks. Stay tuned!