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Christie's deployed a dedicated auction for artworks created using artificial intelligence, titled 'Augmented Intelligence,' running from February 20 to March 5, 2025, billed by Christie's as the first sale exclusively focused on AI art at a major auction house. The 34-lot online and in-person auction totaled $728,784, surpassing its $600,000 pre-sale estimate.
Details
The sale featured works by artists including Refik Anadol, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Claire Silver, Alexander Reben, and Harold Cohen, spanning mediums from sculpture and painting to NFTs and interactive experiences. Works in the sale were created using a range of AI techniques, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), text-to-image models, and machine learning-trained neural networks. Christie's accepted cryptocurrency as payment for 93% of lots, per a pre-sale announcement. The auction drew 37% first-time Christie's buyers, and 48% of bidders identified as Millennials or Gen Z.
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Christie's Augmented Intelligence auctionchristies.com
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Christie's: Christie's deployed a dedicated auction for artworks created using artificial intelligence, titled 'Augmented Intelligence,' running from February 20 to March 5, 2025, billed by Christie's as the first sale exclusively focused on AI art at a major auction house. The 34-lot online and in-person auction totaled $728,784, surpassing its $600,000 pre-sale estimate (data as of 2026-04-27) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/551ffcb7-c28e-486c-98ae-91a85646dda9. Accessed September 11, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/551ffcb7-c28e-486c-98ae-91a85646dda9
- Data as of
- April 27, 2026
- Last verified
- April 22, 2026
Other practices by Christie's
Creative GenChristie's offered 'Portrait of Edmond de Belamy' (2018) by the Paris-based collective Obvious at its October 23-25 Prints and Multiples sale in New York, making it the first AI-generated artwork to sell at a major auction house. The work, produced using a generative adversarial network, sold for $432,500, more than 43 times its pre-sale high estimate of $10,000.OtherChristie's offers an annual Art + Tech Summit, launched in 2018, that brings together artists, technologists, academics, and industry leaders to discuss the intersection of emerging technology — including artificial intelligence — with the art and luxury markets. The summit does not involve Christie's directly deploying AI, but is a recurring platform for discourse Christie's hosts about AI's role in culture.
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