Robbie Barrat: Nude Portrait #7, Frame #92
The scene is July 17, 2018, Christie’s annual Tech Summit, only months after the launch of SuperRare. Robbie Barrat--the first artist to ever tokenize a piece of art on the Superrare platform--created this now iconic work. The "Lost Robbies" are 300 frames of a single generative piece that were given away for free in gift bags to 300+ attendees. Almost all of them were tossed in the trash and lost forever. Best estimates suggest that only 36 of these works have been claimed or recovered--the rest are likely lost to history.
This grail was both the inspiration for the storyline of Punks Comic #1, as well as the lure in the first of Pixel Vault's famous game theoretic decisions, in which Punks Comic #1 holders could burn their comics for membership in the Founder's DAO. This work of art will always hold both a special place in NFT history, and in the mythology of the Founder's DAO and the Pixel Vault ecosystem.
Since starring in its role in Punks Comic #1, the Lost Robbies have continued to grow in stature, and their history, provenance and quality make them key pieces of many of the greatest individual and institutional NFT collections.
Nude Portrait #7, Frame #92 by Robbie Barrat is held by the Founder's DAO vault
SuperRare editiorial on the history of the Lost Robbies: https://editorial.superrare.com/2020/09/05/the-lost-robbies/
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