# Christie's to Take Crypto as Payment for Keith Haring Painting

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Last modified: 2021-06-24

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By Paul Ebeling · 2021-06-24
Tags: Shayne Heffernan on Investments, Luxury, art, Lifestyle, computer, Paul Ebeling, Bitcoin, Crypto, crypto, Art, BTC, ether, Bitcoin, Ethereum, ETR, haring, Christi, Featured
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 Art collectors can buy a painting by Keith Haring using cryptocurrency at Christie's "20th/21st Century" sale in London next wk, where works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas are also going under the hammer.

The untitled Haring piece, painted in Y 1984 and celebrating the start of the digital era with the depiction of a computer, has an estimated value of $5.42 - 6.25-M.

The auction house said buyers could make the full payment: the hammer price and full premium using Ether or Bitcoin.

"*The painting is probably the 1st example that we see of an artist celebrating the computer era.*"

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