Hungarian-French artist Vera Molnar sold 500 non-fungible tokens (NFT) for a total of about $1.2 million in under an hour.
The sales took place on Sotheby’s Metaverse platform. The Themes and Variations collection was developed in collaboration with generative artist Martin Grasser.
The images are based on geometric shapes and the letters “N”, “F” and “T”, forming the acronym “NFT”.
Vera Molnar was born in Budapest in 1924. She currently lives and works in Paris. The artist is known as a pioneer of computer art.
In May, Sotheby’s put up for auction NFTs from the collection of the bankrupt hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. Among them CryptoPunk #6649 in zombie style, Ringers #879 by Dmitry Chernyak, Fidenza #216 by Tyler Hobbs and others.
Earlier, Sotheby’s put up for sale the manuscript of Neal Stephenson’s cult novel “Snow Crash,” in which, presumably, the term «metaverse» first appeared.