Sotheby’s Digital Art Department has announced that it will auction works from Bitcoin Ordinals project BitcoinShrooms designed by anonymous artist Shroomtoshi. The auction will be held from December 6th to 13th local time, and there are currently three works available for bidding.
The BitcoinShrooms series initially mint on-chain on October 22nd. The series includes two individual mushrooms and a pixelated avocado seed, named BIP39 (the common standard for creating mnemonics needed for seed phrases). The three works are expected to sell for approximately $20,000 to $30,000, and the auction house is also accepting cryptocurrency bids.
Michael Bouhanna, Sotheby’s head of digital art, said in a statement that this art auction marks Sotheby’s first auction of Ordinals art. (Blockworks)