Rare Digital Andy Warhol Artwork Sells as NFT for $870,000 at Christie s Auction House to Art Collector
The largest gallery-owned collection of Warhol s iconic Pop Art acquired a prized NFT released by the Andy Warhol Foundation during the knuckle-biting last moments of Christie s online auction titled Andy Warhol: Machine Made.
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NEW YORK, May 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ This morning, Revolver Gallery owner Ron Rivlin placed the winning bid for Warhol s enigmatic
Untitled (Self-Portrait), which the artist created in 1985 on the Amiga 1000 computer. The digital piece will be added to the gallery s collection, which Rivlin founded in 2012 with an ambition to assemble the largest collection of Warhol s artwork. Rivlin s decision to purchase the work is a tribute to Revolver Gallery s willingness to embrace the digital art revolution, from which Andy Warhol is not excluded. As the art world evolves and NFTs offer artists a new wa
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