German artist Wolfgang Beltracchi, who served time in prison for counterfeiting famous works, is entering the NFT market.
Beltracchi launched a new project called “The Greats”. The collection will contain 4,608 NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain.
The NFTs presented in the collection are a recreation of Da Vinci’s most expensive painting, “Salvator Mundi,” which was sold at auction for a record $450 million in 2017.
Beltracchi redrew “The Savior,” taking as a basis five different eras of history - the High Renaissance, Post-Impressionism, surrealism, cubism, pop art.
The artist has been redrawing famous paintings for more than three decades. Previously, he deceived his customers by passing off a fake as an original. From this he earned more than €35 million. In 2011, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison, but was released from prison in early 2015.
After his arrest, museums, galleries and auction houses banned Beltracchi from exhibiting and selling his paintings. In response, the 70-year-old artist turned to NFTs.
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