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Sotheby’s auctions off Dmitri Cherniak’s ‘The Goose’ NFT from 3AC collection for $6.2M

Su Zhu and Kyle Davies originally purchased ‘The Goose’ digital artwork in August 2021 for roughly $5.8 million in Ether. Sotheby’s auction house has sold a piece of digital artwork from the collection of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) for more than $6 million. According to auction records updated June 15, Dmitri Cherniak’s artwork ‘The Goose’ sold for roughly $5.4 million in addition to Sotheby’s premium fees, totaling just over $6.2 million. The nonfungible token (NFT) artwork was part of 3AC’s digital portfolio assembled in 2021. Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, 3AC's co-founders,  purchased ‘The Goose’ in August 2021 for 1,800 Ether (ETH), roughly $5.8 million at the time. Thesis: we like the Goose. pic.twitter.com/RBI9Axuvac — 朱溯 (@zhusu) August 27, 2021 Other pieces in the collection   auction ed by Sotheby’s included CryptoPunks #291, #6574 and #8950, as well as Autoglyph #218 from Larva Labs. Reports on social media suggested the Punks sold for betwee...