Crypto Investor Jehan Chu on Building a Collection of Contemporary Art and NFTs

Written by on April 20, 2022

While a lot has been made about Christie’s sale in March 2021 as a breakthrough event in the art market, the traditional art world’s interest in NFTs can be traced back to that house’s October 2020 sale of a Robert Alice work with an accompanying NFT, the first time a major auction house sold one of these digital tokens.

The 2019 artwork, titled Block 21 (42.36433° N, -71.26189° E), uses gold leaf and acrylic . . .



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