Marquise Museum · Art · Objects · Tokens · Provenance

MARQUISE
MUSEUM ARCHIVE

Pimp Fashion — Art, Tokens & Provenance, 2015–2026

Curatorial and technical history. Not a sale catalogue, investment memorandum or current valuation.

Best current classification

Pimp Fashion is a unique asset backed token created in 2017 and progenitor to digital art fractionalization. Whereas most ABT's from 2017 were backed by gold or fiat, Marquise Museum's Pimp Fashion was backed by digital artworks.

The archive separates artwork dates, publication, fungible-token experiments, redemption/authenticity mechanics and later NFT wrappers rather than back-projecting later functionality into 2017.

Claim controls

Not claimed: a 2017 NFT collection, invention of NFTs or art tokenization, a granted patent, causal influence on NFTX, or a current fair-market valuation.

Explore

Interactive timeline

Eight chronological milestones from the pre-blockchain art corpus through publication, Ethereum linkage, redemption, formal disclosure, mature burn logic and NFT migration.

Open timeline →
Primary object

20171201opti.pdf

Dedicated evidence record for the historical Pimp Fashion PDF preserved through the exact old Squarespace URL in the Wayback Machine, with embedded dates and SHA-256 identity.

Open object record →
Research

Full research note

The 2026 curatorial research note consolidates provenance, prior art, claim controls, patent history, token mechanics and later NFT migration.

Value / provenance sequence
2015–16
Art corpus
2017
Published object
2017
Art token linkage
2018
Redemption
2018–20
Dual-state architecture
2021
NFT migration
2026
Reconstruction