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Last Friday, a portrait made by artificial intelligence was hanging on Christie's in New York, facing a print by Andy Warhol and next to a bronze work by Roy Lichtenstein. On Thursday, it sold well more than double the price achieved by these two pieces combined.
"Edmond de Belamy, Belamy Family" was sold for $ 432,500, including fees, more than 40 times the amount estimated by Christie between $ 7,000 and $ 10,000. The buyer was an anonymous phone bidder.
The portrait, made by the French art collective, Avoid, was marketed by Christie's as the first portrait generated by an algorithm to be auctioned. This was inspired by a sale earlier this year, during which French collector Nicolas Laugero Lasserre bought a portrait directly from the collective for about 10,000 euros, or about 11,400 dollars.
The Andy Warhol print, hanging on last week 's portrait, has sold $ 75,000; Roy Lichtenstein's artwork has sold for $ 87,500. Both prices include fees. These two pieces were part of the same sale as "Edmond de Belamy, of The Belamy Family". (The sale included 363 lots.)
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