🎨 Blue-Chip Art Hits Secondary Markets

🎨 Koons goes liquid

By Yue Minjun - Laughing Man
Feb 12, 2026, 3:08 PM
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LiveArt enables secondary trading for tokenized blue-chip artworks

Two major pieces now trade onchain with full liquidity:

  • Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Blue) - iconic mirror-polished porcelain sculpture from his Celebration Series
  • Takashi Murakami's Flowers - signature work from the renowned contemporary artist

Why it matters:

These are established artworks with documented market history, not speculative NFTs.​ Koons commands a $924M market cap with a $91M auction record.​ The original Balloon Dog sculptures (1994-2000) have sold for up to $58M.​

Secondary markets provide price discovery and exit liquidity for tokenized real-world art assets - addressing a key friction point in traditional art investing.​

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