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Kanye West s Nike Air Yeezy 1 prototype sneakers to retail for $1m at private auction 13 April 2021 - 11:24 Rapper Kanye West s Nike Air Yeezy 1 prototype sneakers are expected to sell for $1m at a private auction. File photo. Image: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
“I ain t dropped the album but the shoes went platinum.” That s what Kanye West rapped in 2016.
Little did we know the rapper and businessman meant one sneaker could rake in millions.
On Monday, Sotheby’s announced it was auctioning West s Nike Air Yeezy 1 prototype sneakers for $1m (about R14.5m).
The item, considered “one of the most prized and sought-after sneakers in existence”, is set to be auctioned during a private sale from Ryan Chang, renowned sneaker collector and curator of Applied Arts NYC.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude s art collection auctioned
Sotheby s auction house in Paris has Christo and Jeanne-Claude s personal art collection up for auction. A sketch for their work The Umbrellas sold for five times the estimated value.
Jeanne-Claude and Christo
The art world has an eye on Paris this week. It s not often that the personal collection of a pair of deceased artists gets sold off to the highest bidder. The duo of tireless packaging artists have collected these works over the course of their colorful lives. At the first part of the auction on Wednesday, sales soared to $9.8 million; the remaining lots are to be auctioned on Thursday.
Sotheby's auction house in Paris has Christo and Jeanne-Claude's personal art collection up for auction. A sketch for their work "The Umbrellas" sold for five times the estimated value.
Jan. 12, 2021 3:38 pm ET
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IN LATE December 2020, the venerated auction house Sotheby’s hosted an online-only sale of a pair of leather Adidas sneakers. Made in partnership with the 311-year-old porcelain-maker Meissen specifically for the auction, the shoes had been festooned with porcelain overlays and meticulously hand-painted with fanciful motifs from toe to heel, a six-month process that elevated humble sweat repositories to something approaching art. To the highest bidder, the sneakers were worth $126,000. (All proceeds went to the Brooklyn Museum.)
These extravagant Adidas shoes are among the sneakers and high-end streetwear pieces that have been infiltrating the tony auction market of late. In July 2019, Sotheby’s sold a historic set of Nike ’s “Moon Shoe” waffle-soled sneakers from 1972 for a then-record-setting $437,500. A pair of game-worn