{"id":66260,"date":"2022-08-24T18:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66260"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:27:01","slug":"sothebys-hires-nft-specialist-for-its-digital-art-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sothebys-hires-nft-specialist-for-its-digital-art-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby\u2019s hires NFT specialist for its digital-art team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sotheby\u2019s auction house has hired NFT specialist Brian Beccafico for its digital-art team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Achievement unlocked : first day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n2P1SMz4fA\">pic.twitter.com\/n2P1SMz4fA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arthemort (@Arthemort) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arthemort\/status\/1561966205296074754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Beccafico is a collector and is known on Twitter by the handle Arthemort. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/artfromfuture.medium.com\/interview-with-brian-beccafico-a-young-art-collector-fd81721ea6d9\">interview<\/a> he said he had acquired works by Mike Winkelmann, known by the alias Beeple, Pak, Fewocious and XCOPY.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the auction house, in comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/165301\/sothebys-hires-nft-specialist-to-join-digital-art-team\">The Block<\/a>, confirmed that the specialist had joined their team.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-sold-the-covid-alien-cryptopunk-nft-for-11-8m\">Sotheby\u2019s sold NFT CryptoPunk #7523<\/a>, also known as COVID Alien, for 4,520 ETH ($11.8m at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>In September, the auction house <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-sells-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-set-by-yuga-labs-for-24-4-million\">sold a set of 107 NFTs from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection<\/a> by Yuga Labs for $24.4m. The final price significantly exceeded the high estimate, which had been $18m.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, Sotheby\u2019s announced a sale of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-to-auction-104-cryptopunks-nfts\">a set of 104 non-fungible tokens<\/a> from the CryptoPunks collection. However, the seller at the last moment <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cryptopunk-nft-owner-pulls-sothebys-auction\">withdrew the lot from the auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sotheby\u2019s auction house has hired NFT specialist Brian Beccafico for its digital-art team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213],"class_list":["post-66260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66262,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66260\/revisions\/66262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}