Let’s Talk About Beeple
3 min readMar 13, 2021
On March 11, 2021 art auction house Christie’s sold a digital-only artwork by the American artist known as Beeple, for a whopping $69.34 million dollars. That’s right, the .jpg file seen above is now the third most expensive work of art made by a living artist, right behind David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for $90.3 mil and of course, Jeff Koons’ Rabbit for $91.1 mil. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
