The Buyer Behind the $29 M. Beeple Sculpture

Beeple’s Human One (2021), a seven-foot-tall sculpture composed of LED screens that display an astronaut strolling through a dystopian landscape, sold to Ryan Zurrer for $29 million at Christie’s evening sale last night.
As a a Swiss venture capitalist, Zurrer has had a long and varied career. He has always been in finance, starting with his position as an investment analyst at the New York law firm Financial Technology Partners. From 2006 to 2012, Zurrer worked for Vestas, a wind tu