Portrait of Edmond Belamy to become world's first AI painting to go up for auction Verdict

Auction house Christie's made headlines last year with the record-breaking $450m sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Tomorrow's sale of the Generative Adversarial Network's Portrait of Edmond Belamy will likely be a far less significant event, but it could signal a changing of the guard in the art world as the Old Masters give way to a technology-dominated future. The sale of Portrait of Edmond Belamy will be another huge milestone for Christie's. This will be the first time in history that a piece of artwork generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will go up for auction. The picture depicts a blurred man in a white shirt and dark jacket, standing off centre.