The short answer is I’ve been a fanatical collector of things since my childhood. From the age of seven or eight I started collecting inexpensive 18th- and 19th-century English coins and World War I campaign medals. I reconnected with it in my mid-twenties at a point in my life when I started to earn quite a lot of money trading commodities in the markets. I moved to Paris for 18 months when I was 25 and art educated myself in the museums there. During that period, I started collecting paintings, which I felt I liked at the time. Then I got back into collecting Roman coins, hand-painted books and antiquities, which led to the opening of the
NFT and IRL art worlds collide in female-led Christie’s auction
NFT and IRL art worlds collide in female-led Christie’s auction
In an auction history first, on 14 May 2021, Christie’s will offer traditional paintings accompanied by original NFT artworks by anonymous digital feminist collective Rewind
Rewind Collective,
Courtesy of the Amar Singh Gallery and Christie’s
Despite its relative youth, NFT art has already dazzled the art world with controversy, intrigue and surprise in equal measure. For the latest in a number of firsts for the genre, a Christie’s auction will offer traditional, physical paintings accompanied by NFT artworks made by digital feminist collective Rewind.
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Christieâs is making history on May 14 by offering traditional paintings by female artists with accompanying NFT works by the anonymous digital feminist collective Rewind in a grouping celebrating women entitled
Rewind have made original NFTsâor non-fungible tokensâto accompany five paintings by prominent women of abstract expressionism: Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Yvonne Thomas, and Lynne Mapp Drexler.
An NFT acts as a one-of-a-kind trading card of sorts. Part of the cryptocurrency Ethereum blockchain, digital files are turned into unique assets that harbour additional information prudent to the accompanying art piece. The NFTs produced by Rewind are individualised to each of the five artworks at the Christieâs auction. Collectors who successfully bid on the paintings will receive their added NFT, acting as a deed of sorts.
Christieâs Images 2021
In a
Tatler exclusive, weâre pleased to break the news of the forthcoming Christieâs Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
Trailblazers: Centuries of Female Abstraction, to be held on 14 May 2021. Celebrating the women of abstract expressionism, the auction will present connoisseurs of both digital and traditional art the rarified opportunity to acquire paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Yvonne Thomas, and Lynne Mapp Drexler. Each work is accompanied by an original NFT created by
Rewind Collective in response to the lives and oeuvres of the women featured.
So what are NFTs exactly?