The Kanbas Collection acquires three rare XCOPY editions for $1.28M in total.
Artworks 'Cracked', 'Dirtbag' and 'Disaster Suit' were all minted via R.A.R.E Art Labs in 2018 and intended to be editions of 10. Only 6, 5, and 4 exist, respectively, with the unsold remainder locked with the now closed marketplace. They are three of five total artworks that XCOPY minted on R.A.R.E.
Once nicknamed "The Lost XCOPIES", the efforts and wrapper of jPeggy pave the way for the ERC-20 tokens to be converted into ERC-721s, allowing them to be transacted on current marketplaces.
All three transactions take place via Gondi, brokered by Eli Scheinman:
Via Coldie:
"I acquired Disaster Suit and Dirtbag after they’d gone unsold for over a year...
For six years, they’ve been in my care, and it felt right to hand them over to such a perfect steward who can write the next part of their story. Art is supposed to be seen and appreciated, and The Kanbas Collection will bring many eyes to it over the years...
And finally...
Long live crypto art."
This is not the only big news of the day for Coldie.
'Brian Armstrong - Decentral Eyes - Variant 01' by Coldie is also acquired by Kanbas for 15 ETH ($39,124 USD).
It is one of the artist's long standing 'Decentral Eyes' series, with its first appearance on chain in July 2018 (fittingly the mint month of both XCOPY artworks he sold!) with 'Decentral Eyes - Vitalik Buterin - Variant 01'.
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While it is impossible to top the XCOPY artworks in the lead headline, here is our weekly look at three additional Gondi transactions offering market insight:
Monday, June 2nd - Friday, June 6th:
'Daily Rare' with SuperRare: 1/1 artworks featuring DirtyRobot, Hafftka, 0010, Botto and blanq
Thursday, June 5th:
'Daily Program' with Fellowship: Artworks open for auction at 1:00pm ET
Thursday, June 5th:
'Pathways' by Amber Vittoria with Mintify and Abstract
Thursday, June 5th:
'The Suburbs' by Hayden Clay with Ninfa
Raoul Pal used a line this past week: "Make art weird again".
A sibling of that statement is "Make art fun again".
Today a big shout goes to Redbeard for his live-streamed Tonight Show at NFC Lisbon, and the latter deserves a shout too for empowering it.
Reviews were immaculate, and it looked FUN. Live art, wide ranging guests, games, dancing, kickboxing, and more. While I couldn't be there personally, it's evident that this is the kind of sticky memory that will last for attendees and ultimately make art endearing.
Watch it here.
Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of 4 ETH+ Collection, 0.3 ETH+ 1/1, 0.75 ETH+ 1/1/X, and 0.3 ETH+ Edition
Under Threshold...
...but interesting to me is 'ROUTINES' by Vertigo seeing 5 sales for 0.733 ETH in total via SuperRare.
'Keep Going' - collected by Gavin Meeler - caught my eye first and is pictured above.
Monday was a Paintbox Party with guests Adrian Wilson, Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Bryan Brinkman, Coldie, Georg Bak, Ivona Tau, Justin Aversano, and Noah Bolanowski.
Watch the recording here.
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