Welcome to this week’s Minty art round-up covering some of the biggest news stories in Crypto Art and Patronage as well as highlighting our Artist of the Week.
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Top Sales in Crypto Art 📈
#1 This week’s top seller is Toxic Poeth, a “meme provocateur” who has created a collection of baseball-style cards named ‘Crypto Legends’ featuring many prolific entrepreneurs and CEOs such as Sam Bankman Fried and Hayden Adams. In total this week Toxic has sold just over 220 ETH worth around $127k.
#2 Another notable artist this week is Anna Zhilyaeva, a French artist who combines both the digital and real-world with her amazing virtual reality pieces. Her latest piece, ‘shutdown -- reboot’ sold for an impressive 41.90 ETH ($24,593).
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Pascal Boyart better known as PBoy is unveiling his latest work. He posted on Twitter with the hashtag #undergroundsistinechapel that showed off a small snippet of this incredible transformation. Painted only by himself over the national lockdown, PBoy has created a modern version of Michaelangelo’s Masterpiece.
Cryptobates is bringing their NFT artwork into the real world by encoding their unique pieces onto a physical ring and sending them out to the buyers sealed in a faraday bag. Each of the 11 unique pieces, created by Primal Cypher, depict the Ethereum symbol in a minimalist geometric style. What’s more, is the Cryptobates is running a giveaway right now on Rarible, with only a few tickets left and the deadline coming soon you don’t want to miss out on this amazing opportunity.
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Recent Major Sales 🏷
‘Picasso’s Bull’ by the talented Trevor Jones just sold for $19,500, 26 times its original asking price. The animated NFT artwork features a bull based on the famous piece by Picasso. The Crypto Art was purchased by the Winklevoss twins last year.
Artist of the Week 🎨
This week in the spotlight is the fantastic artist DinizBr, who has created this bold statement piece that reflects some of our darker times in history, titled ‘The Killers’. This shocking piece is sure to spark some conversation as one of the characters featured is the 45th American President Donald Trump.
The piece features characters from the past and present who have stained the history with blood.
The monsters of the past make up this piece as a reminder that when those in charge, who are supposed to protect us, became responsible for our deaths, something has gone wrong!
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