It took a few minutes for Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran to realise that they’d parted with US$69.3 million for a digital artwork stored in a JPEG file, coincidentally securing their place in art history.“We weren’t sure we won,” recalls Venkateswaran, describing the nerve-racking final moments of the online auction for a collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. “We kept refreshing the page.”The March 11 auction at Christie’s in London immediately made Beeple’s artwork…
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