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The art world may not take seen Beeple coming, just crypto-art fans have been voraciously buying NFT artworks—unique digital avails, individually identified on a blockchain called non-fungible tokens—at increasingly stratospheric prices over the by few months.

In January and February lone, there were $300 million in NFT sales, according to Cointelegraph. OpenSea, a leading NFT market place, had monthly sales of just $1.5 million a year agone—a figure that jumped to $8 million in Jan and an astonishing $86.3 million in Feb.

Swell Gateway, which is owned past the Winkelvoss twins, of Facebook infamy—and founded by fellow twins Duncan and Griffin Erect Foster—only launched 1 yr ago this month. In 2020, it conducted $12 meg in sales. In February, a unmarried Beeple on the site sold for more than half that amount.

In fact, since starting time venturing into the NFT art world in October, Beeple alone has sold $102.2 million in art. With but 842 works that accept come to the market, that means the average Beeple NFT is work $121,422. But Beeple isn't the only highly sought-after crypto artist in the game.

The NFT art market explosion has seen five of the top ten prices set up this month, co-ordinate to the website Cryptoart, which tracks the most expensive NFT artworks on major platforms—and that's not even counting collectible "Crypto Punks," 24-by-24 pixel drawings of x,000 unique collectible characters that can fetch more than $one million each, with a record-breaking conflicting punk selling for $vii.5 million on March 11.

Hither are the top x near-expensive individual NFTs of all time—plus nine others yous should know.

10. FEWOCiOUS,The EverLasting Beautiful by FEWOCiOUS
$550,000, March 2021, Nifty Gateway

FEWOCiOUS, The EverLasting Beautiful past FEWOCiOUS. Courtesy of the artist.

FEWOCiOUS, a semi-anonymous 18-yr-old artist from Las Vegas named Victor, is in his last year of loftier school. When someone offset suggested he endeavour NFTs, "I was like, 'what'south the catch?' And they're like, 'no, we merely want you guys to actually get noticed and compensated for your piece of work and be seen as almost like a concrete artist,'" FEWOCiOUS told Decrypt.

His most expensive work to date, The EverLasting Cute by FEWOCiOUS, sold for $550,000, including the original sheet on which the animation was based.

9. Trevor Jones and Jose Delbo, Genesis
$552,603.98, Oct 2020, MakersPlace

At historic period 87, comic book artist José Delbo has fully embraced crypto art, dropping his showtime NFT last August later on a summertime of cancelled comic book conventions. He teamed up with painter and cryptoartist Trevor Jones for an oil painting version of one of the Delbo'southward inked drawings of Batman.

8. Chris Torres, Nyan Cat
$561,000, February, 2021, Foundation

Chris Torres, Nyan Cat. Image courtesy of Chris Torres.

In celebration of the tenth altogether ofNyan Cat, an animated gif of a cat with a Pop Tart body flying through infinite, trailed past a streaming rainbow, creator Chris Torres turned the meme into an NFT and auctioned it off. It sold for 300 ether, or roughly $561,000.

Torres has since lent his assistance to the figures behind other popular memes looking to translate their viral popularity to success on the NFT market. The digital artist has helped meme subjects like "Bad Luck Brian" and "Scumbag Steve"—which are, respectively, an awkward-looking yearbook photograph that first went viral in 2012 and a photo of a teen in a sideways cap that gained a post-obit starting in 2011—mint their own NFTs, arranging a #memeconomy sale on NFT marketplace Foundation.

Bad Luck Brian went for 20 ether ($36,000), while Scumbag Steve fetched xxx ether ($57,000).

7. Beeple, The Complete MF Drove
$777,777.77, Slap-up Gateway, December 2020

Beeple, The Complete MF Collection. Courtesy of the artist.

Over the course of 48 hours, Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann broke digital records in December by selling $3.5 meg in NFT fine art in a single driblet. The weekend'southward sales included twenty i-of-one edition artworks chosen "Beeple Everydays: The 2022 Collection" from the "Everydays" series that collectively fetched $2.2 million. The heir-apparent of all 20, a crypto-exclusive fund called Metapurse, was too behind the artist's record-breaking Christie'southward auction earlier this month—only lost out on a literal final-second bid of $777,777 for the set as a single NFT, titled The Complete MF Collection.

At the time, information technology was a record toll for a work of NFT fine art. Beeple also offered $1 limited edition works in sets of 100 and 3 open edition images at a fixed price of $969. The total over the 2 days equalled xi months worth of sales on SuperRare, a leading crypto art platform, co-ordinate to CoinCodex.

vi. Pak, Finite.
$809,789.twoscore, March 2021, Foundation

Anonymous crypto-creative person Pak was actually the first big name in the game, breaking into the NFT art market way back in February 2020. "No creator has had more success selling their work on Ethereum," a web log post for media brand the Control stated in September.

Although Pak has since been eclipsed by Beeple, the creative person, who uses the pronoun they, all the same fills two slots on the top ten NFT sales, and is on deck to become Sotheby's first NFT creative person.

5. Steve Aoki and Antoni Tudisco,hairy
$888,888.88, March 2021, Slap-up Gateway

Steve Aoki and Antoni Tudisco,hairy. Courtesy of the artist.

Capitalizing on NFT mania, DJ and producer Steve Aoki released an 11-slice digital art drove, called "Dreamcatcher," with German 3-D illustrator Antoni Tudisco. On March 9, 2021, one of the works, the blithenessHairy, set what was touted as a new tape for the most expensive NFT artwork. Each piece comes with an Space Objects physical brandish case.

4. Pak,Metarift
$904,413.47, March 2021, MarkersPlace

Pak,Metarift. Courtesy of the artist.

The newest entry on the list, the press release for Pak's biggest auction to appointment with an $888,888 bid—NFT collectors like flashy numbers—hit Artnet News's inboxes minutes later on we had finished edited this article Fri afternoon, illustrating the fast-growing nature of the rapidly evolving NFT art market place. In fact, the auction went fifty-fifty higher before its shut Sabbatum afternoon, ending just shy of the million mark for the mesmerizing video blitheness—a criterion Pak seems nearly sure to break at his forthcoming large sale debut.

three. Kevin Abosch,Forever Rose
$1 one thousand thousand, February 2018, GIFTO

Kevin Abosch, Forever Rose (2018). At the fourth dimension of its $1 million sale on Valentine'due south Day in 2018, the slice was the globe's virtually expensive piece of NFT art. Courtesy of the artist.

Missing from about lists of top NFT art sales is Forever Rose, which dropped on Valentine's 24-hour interval in 2018—before the term NFT was even in mutual parlance amidst cryptoart'southward early adopters. It was purchased for an even $1 million by a collective of investors for cryptocurrencies from artist Kevin Abosch, who previously fabricated headlines with the $1 million auction of a photograph of a dingy potato,

two. Beeple,Crossroads
$half dozen.6 million, Feb 2021, Corking Gateway

Beeple,Crossroads (2020). Courtesy of the artist.

Beeple minted his first NFTs in October 2020, for a sale he titled "The First Drop." He soldCrossroads, which featured 2 possible images—one marker a Donald Trump election victory, the other, his defeat—on Groovy Gateway that month for $66,666.66.

Only a few months later, the resale figure was 100 times more—and the shifting artwork had locked in, revealing an blitheness of Trump'southward bloated, graffitied corpse lying naked on the side of the road.

1. Beeple,Everydays—The First 5000 Days
$69 million, March 2021, Christie'south

Beeple, Everydays – The First 5000 Days NFT, 21,069 pixels 10 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes). Paradigm courtesy the artist and Christie's.

On Feb 16, Christie's appear that it would offer it's starting time-ever purely digital blockchain artwork—a claim that is at present being contested—selling a collage of Beeple's first 5,000 "Everydays," the digital drawings he had been creating since May 1, 2007. (Beeple'south recent pieces in the series are sophisticated digital renderings, but the earlier pieces are more akin to rough doodles, and much of the imagery is offensive.)

Bids started at just $100, but apace skyrocketed into the millions, before selling for an astonishing $69 million—making Beeple not only the creator of the most expensive NFT art e'er, but the third-most-expensive of all living artists, backside merely Jeff Koons and David Hockney.

Other Notable NTF Fine art

bananaman, banana & record
asking price $146,2146, Rarifed

bananaman, banana & tape (2021). Courtesy of the artist.

No buyer for this one yet, but considering that three separate collectors were inspired to purchase a $150,000 certificate entitling them to duct record a assistant to the wall and telephone call information technology Maurizio Cattelan'sThe Comedian, who'southward to say that at that place won't be similar interest in a pixelated version?

The request toll, naturally, is 80 ether, or about $146,246.

Ryder Ripps and Azealia Banks, I FUCKED RYDER RIPPS
$17,240, March 2021, Foundation

Ryder Ripps and Azealia Banks, I FUCKED RYDER RIPPS, an sound NFT of the two artists having sexual practice, sold for $18,000. Photograph courtesy of the artists.

Conceptual artist Ryder Ripps, who has previously collaborated with Pornhub, teamed up with his girlfriend, rapper Azealia Banks, to release an audio sex tape NFT. Featuring a 24-minute WAV file recording a sexual run into between the couple, the NFT, which sold at the asking toll of 10 ether inside nine hours, also came with a signed LP vinyl tape version of the album.

The calendar week earlier, Ripps had sold theDeal With It sunglasses GIF he created in 2010 on Foundation for 15 ether, or about $26,137.

Robert Alice, Block 21
$131,000, October 2020, Christie's

Robert Alice, Block 21 (42.36433° N, -71.26189° Eastward) from "Portraits of a Heed." Photo courtesy of Christie's.

Christie'south start foray into the NFT space came final year, with the sale of Robert Alice's painted wall relief,Block 21 (42.36433° Due north, -71.26189° Eastward), and an accompanying NFT. The work, which sold for $131,250, was office of the artist's "Portraits of a Mind," a 40-slice series that painted the hexadecimal code behind Bitcoin. Information technology will feature, forth with piece of work past Beeple, FEWOCiOUS, and Mad Dog Jones, among others, in the world's outset NFT fine art exhibition, opening later this week at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.

Homer Pepe
$320,000, February 2021

Homer Pepe, the most expensive Rare Pepe NFT, sold for $320,000 in February 2021.

Inspired past Matt Furie's Pepe the Frog comic volume grapheme-turned meme, Rare Pepes are digital trading cards on the Bitcoin blockchain, purchased with Pepe Cash and a Rare Pepe Wallet. The 1-of-a-kind Homer Pepe first made headlines in 2022 when Peter Kell purchased information technology for what Mashable described as the "ridiculous" corporeality of $39,000 at the world'south showtime digital art sale, held at Rare Art Labs Digital Fine art Festival in New York. (Apparently, there was confusion over who placed the winning bed, and Kell had to prevail in a coin toss before he could take home the prize.)

Kell flaunted his ownership of the NFT in the 2022 Pepe the Frog documentaryFeels Good Man, renting a Lamborghini for his onscreen advent in the hopes of raising involvement from prospective buyers—but it took the recent NFT craze to finally make the sale to blockchain investor TokenAngels happen.

Andrés Reisinger, "The Shipping"
$450,000, Peachy Gateway, February 2021

Andrés Reisinger, Matsumoto. Courtesy of the creative person.

When furniture designer Andrés Reisinger released a drove of 10 of his whimsical, sometimes outright impossible objects equally NFTs, they were a hit at auction, selling out in simply x minutes. Just unlike your typical NFT, half of the furniture renderings volition actually be manufactured, turning the designs into physical objects the buyer can incorporate into their home decor.

Krista Kim, Mars House
$512,000, March 2021, SuperRare

The most expensive NFT art sale by a woman creative person, Krista Kim'sMars House was bumped from the summit 10 just ii days after selling for $512,000 last calendar week. The artwork was billed as "the first NFT digital house in the world," and is fabricated up of 3-D files designed to be viewed with virtual reality or augmented reality applied science. The slice, which Kim describes as a glass-walled "light sculpture" overlooking the rocky Martian landscape, as well includes a soundtrack equanimous by Jeff Schroeder of the Smashing Pumpkins.

"Soon, we volition all live in AR through our existent environments using SuperWorld, a new app that has mapped the entire world for AR interface," Kim told Dezeen. "Virtual real estate based on the real globe can be purchased on SuperWorld, and in the very near future, this app will let united states of america to mint 3D NFTs and create a marketplace of digital AR assets." (If you're skeptical about the virtual earth, the artist also claims that glass furniture-makers in Italy can build the physical abode and all the piece of furniture in it.)

Justin Roiland, "The Best I Could Do"
$ane.65 million, January 2021, Groovy Gateway

Justin Roiland, The Smintons. Courtesy of the creative person.

Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland offered over a dozen artworks in his first NFT art collection in Jan, led by hisSimpsons homageThe Smintons, at $290,100. "Testing the boundaries of crypto fine art. What makes something valuable? The art? The artist? The process? The state of mind while created? The intention of the piece?" he wrote on Twitter. "Feeling really good nigh this collection."

In his second drop on March 17, Roiland pulled the $69,000 NFTTo a Better Artist Than Me ahead of the auction, gifting it to Beeple every bit an homage to the $69 million sale.

Trevor Jones,Bitcoin Angel
$3.2 1000000, Nifty Gateway, February 2021

Trevor Jones, Bitcoin Affections (2021). Courtesy of the artist.

On Feb 25, 2021, Trevor Jones set a new record for the most expensive open edition NFT artwork by selling 4,157 editions of his painting Bitcoin Angel for $777 each over just 7 minutes. Jones as well had merely the second NFT drop to exceed $1 million, a collaboration with Pak titled "The Collision" that brought in $one.3 million in December 2020.

Mad Dog Jones, "Crash + Burn"
$3.9 million, February 2021, Nifty Gateway

Mad Dog Jones, Why would I care I'm just a cat? and Déjà Vu from the series "Crash + Burn down." Courtesy of the artist.

Mad Domestic dog Jones topped Beeple's December driblet when two open edition NFTs brought in $3.9 million, selling for $two,500 and $5,000 a piece. A ane-of-one edition piece,Boardwalk, separately brought in $388,888 the same day.

Grimes, "WarNymph Collection Vol. 1"
$5.8 million, March 2021, Great Gateway

Grimes, Gods in Hi-res. Courtesy of the artist.

Claire "Grimes" Boucher entered the NFT arena with splash, dropping "WarNymph Collection Vol. ane," a collaboration with her blood brother, Mac Boucher, on Not bad Gateway on March 1. The entire series was sold out within 20 minutes. (The musician offset unveiled her artworks final year in a digital show with Los Angeles dealer Michele Maccarone on GalleryPlatform.LA.)

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