With their eyes trained on a gilded frame containing a smeared, half-formed image of a distinguished gentleman, a small group of potential bidders gathered Friday night over cocktails at Christie’s New York and heard the pitch: here was the first portrait generated by an algorithm to come up for auction. The portrait, produced by artificial intelligence, hung on the wall opposite an Andy Warhol print and just to the right of a bronze work by Roy Lichtenstein.
Image: “Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy,” a print on canvas produced by the French collective Obvious, working with artificial intelligence, will be auctioned Thursday at Christie’s.CreditCreditChristie's
