#AuctionUpdate Monkey Business 🐒🍌: #Banksy’s monumental painting of the House of Commons overrun with parliamentary primates sells to applause at £9,879,500 - 9 times its previous record - after a 13 minute bidding battle.
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- It's official. For the first time in our 277-year history, apes and kennels are storming Sotheby’s. The @BoredApeYC sale starts September 2. Ape In.
00:00 - #Breaking #TOP, Asian pop icon&collector,will guest-curate special sale #TTTOP in #HongKong bit.ly/29Qw5Vj
- Behind the scenes with Asian pop icon #TOP! Details in mid Aug. Photo by Kevin Ching, CEO of #SothebysAsia #TTTOP
- Bored Ape Yacht Club and Bored Ape Kennel Club have paved the way for what NFT art communities can be. Whether it’s your online identity, a shared culture, or you just want to ape in...the @BoredApeYC sale starts September 2. Details here: bit.ly/3t08Scf
00:00 - #AuctionUpdate George Condo's 'Female Portrait Composition' fetches $972.5K quickly followed by 'Big John' for $948.5K #TriumphofPainting
- #AuctionUpdate: ‘Juin-Octobre 1985’, the largest work by Franco-Chinese artist Zao Wou-Ki, sold for HK$510m / US$65m: world auction record for Zao Wou-Ki, world auction record for an oil painting by an Asian artist, most valuable painting sold by any auction house in #HongKong
- New details announced for #TTTOP x #Sothebys! Read more at: sothebys.com/tttop #sothebyscontemporary
- #AuctionUpdate 101 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs just sold for $24.4 million and 101 Bored Ape Kennel Club NFTs achieved $1.8 million in our Ape in! auction - the most significant #BAYC sale to date. Congrats to all the apes out there 🐵🐶
GIF - Moments ago in our #London saleroom, an extremely rare “Alien” CryptoPunk #7523 from the collection of @sillytuna sold for $11.8M as part of our #NativelyDigital NFT auction – setting a new world auction record for a single CryptoPunk.
- #NativelyDigital is back! Sotheby’s is proud to welcome our second dedicated NFT sale - 'Natively Digital 1.2: The Collectors.'
00:00 - 'Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale' features a selection of extraordinary digital artworks. Community is vital to the growth of the NFT space, so we are opening up the 28th auction lot to an NFT artist of the community’s choice. ⬇️ Read on for details of how to nominate ⬇️
- The 1972 Nike Waffle Racing Flat 'Moon Shoe,' the last remaining pair in Sotheby's Stadium Goods: the Ultimate Sneaker Collection, achieved $437,500 earlier today, setting a new world auction record for a pair of sneakers. #SothebysStadiumGoods
