Introduction
Christie's sale of Portrait of Edmond de Belamy for $432,500 makes GAN art an international media subject. It also brings disputes over the provenance of code, authorship and the attribution of technical labour into view. The artwork's value chain includes models, software, an artistic collective and the institutions of the art market.
View full image ↗Obvious’s Edmond de Belamy, from Christie’s 2018 auction lot record.
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Source · , Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy | Christie's ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
A generated image presented as a framed, signed auction object.
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The auction object
Christie’s identifies the 2018 work as a print on canvas from a series of eleven unique images, published by Obvious Art in Paris. The record specifies an ink signature in the form of a GAN loss function and an original gilded wooden frame. Support, signature and series membership constitute the auction object alongside its computational production.
Section sources: Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
Authorship in the market
Placing a mathematical expression where a signature is expected frames generation as an authorship question. The lot page does not independently resolve all relations among code contributions, training images and artistic selection. It is primary evidence of market description, not proof of autonomous machine creativity.
Section sources: Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
Sources for this account
Christie’s lot 363 material, dimensions, publisher and series record read.
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Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2018-10 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2018-10
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Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6166184
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #101 · Historical node
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AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 20 · 063
Date as recorded: 2018-10
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy ↗
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
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