{"id":82373,"date":"2023-07-30T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82373"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:37:01","slug":"99-year-old-artist-vera-molnar-sells-nft-collection-for-about-1-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/99-year-old-artist-vera-molnar-sells-nft-collection-for-about-1-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"99-year-old artist Vera Molnar sells NFT collection for about $1.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian-French artist Vera Molnar sold 500 non-fungible tokens (<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a>) for a total of about $1.2 million in under an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The sales took place on Sotheby\u2019s Metaverse platform. The Themes and Variations collection was developed in collaboration with generative artist Martin Grasser.<\/p>\n<p>The images are based on geometric shapes and the letters \u201cN\u201d, \u201cF\u201d and \u201cT\u201d, forming the acronym \u201cNFT\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44-1024x492.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44\" class=\"wp-image-212512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44-1536x738.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-30-v-14.08.44-2048x985.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Examples of NFTs from the Themes and Variations collection. Data: Sotheby\u2019s Metaverse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Sotheby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-to-auction-nft-collection-from-hedge-fund-3ac\">put up for auction<\/a> NFTs from the collection <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/british-virgin-islands-court-orders-liquidation-of-three-arrows-capital\">of the bankrupt<\/a> hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. Among them <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-cryptopunks\">CryptoPunk<\/a> #6649 in zombie style, Ringers #879 by Dmitry Chernyak, Fidenza #216 by Tyler Hobbs and others.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Sotheby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-to-auction-neal-stephensons-snow-crash-manuscript-with-first-mention-of-the-term-metaverse\">put up for sale<\/a> the manuscript of Neal Stephenson\u2019s cult novel \u201cSnow Crash,\u201d in which, presumably, the term <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-metaverse\">\u00abmetaverse\u00bb<\/a> first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian-French artist Vera Molnar sold 500 non-fungible tokens in under an hour for a total of about $1.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82374,"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":[1213,2256],"class_list":["post-82373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-online-auction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"57","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373","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=82373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82375,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373\/revisions\/82375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}