“The egg is such an absolute and stunning perfection-there are not many like it in nature,” said Fischer. Fire and the fertilisation of eggs were once purely natural processes, but humans conquered both: fire fits in our pockets and our eggs come from battery farms. The egg and lighter NFT is a shrine to the power of humans, Fischer explained to Decrypt. CHAOS #1 Humanįischer’s NFT, titled CHAOS #1 Human, will start accepting bids on Sunday at 5pm EDT.
“There are great minds on both sides, and creative juices could come out of some dialogue between the two.”Īnd there’s a good chance that Gouzer’s first NFT client, Fischer, could make it rain once again: Fischer’s previous work, Untitled (Lamp/Bear), a giant statue of a bear sitting under a lamp, sold for $6 million at a Christie’s auction in 2011. Gouzer told Decrypt from his home in Long Island that selling to crypto natives would have excluded fine art collectors. Now the rainmaker’s getting into NFTs-and bringing throngs of traditional art collectors with him.
The app, which launched last summer, auctioned a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $10.8 million, setting a record for the largest in-app purchase. In 2018, Gouzer left Christie’s and set up Fair Warning, an app to auction fine art. Often called the rainmaker for his wildly successful art auctions, Loïc Gouzer served from 2015 to 2018 as the co-chair of Christie’s-the auction house that sold Beeple’s NFT for $69.3 million last month. The man who once auctioned off the most expensive artwork in history, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, for $450.3 million, is auctioning his first NFT on his app for fine art collectors, a 3D animation of an egg and a lighter modelled by contemporary artist Urs Fischer. He told Decrypt he wants to sell it “at a price that makes it as democratic as possible.” Gouzer has the final say on the price he accepts.The NFT is a 3D animation of an egg and a lighter by contemporary artist Urs Fischer.Loïc Gouzer, the former co-chair of the auction house Christie’s, will court traditional art buyers for his first NFT auction.