Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss' selling as 10,000 NFTs for Valentine's Day

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For the ultimate Valentine's Day gift you can now buy a limited edition digital NFT piece of 'The Kiss', the romantic masterpiece painted by Gustav Klimt.

The famous painting of a couple kissing is being sectioned into 10,000 digital tiles, each a reproduction of the original artwork.

The NFTs are being sold by Vienna's Belvedere Palace Museum on Valentine's Day.

2021 saw the non-fungible token (NFT) have its major breakthrough into both popular culture and the art world establishment.

Venturing into NFTs is a new departure for the Austrian museum.

It's a potential new market for them, which will also allow them to reach people who wouldn't otherwise visit their museum.

"So for us as museum people, it's a completely new field that we're opening up, but you can say that NFT is the abbreviation for 'Non-Fungible Token'. It stands for a non-exchangeable asset, which is what this token is," says Katharina Steinbrecher, the museum's Marketing Director.

The museum says it will accept a credit card, Paypal, and even cryptocurrencies.

The cost for one fraction of the digitalised image of 'The Kiss' is €1,850 or 0,65 Ethereum.

A high-resolution digital copy will be divided into a 100 x 100 grid, resulting in 10,000 inimitable individual pieces.

The NFT certificates issued will then show exactly which part was purchased.

There is also the possibility to add a personal dedication to the NFT via thekiss.art. The dedications can be seen there from 14 February.

Check out the video above for a look at how Gustav Klimt's masterpiece is being made into NFTs