Eleesa Dadiani is auctioning 49 per cent of 14 Small Electric Chairs by Andy Warhol in cryptocurrencies

Her gallery became the first in the UK to sell luxury art in a cryptocurrency. Then she sold a £4 million fleet of Formula One cars to a mysterious Chinese buyer. Now, in a far cry from stuffy wood-panelled auction houses, Eleesa Dadiani is set to publicly auction Andy Warhol’s 1980 work 14 Small Electric Chairs online in cryptocurrencies.

Speaking from Dadiani Fine Art, her gallery in Mayfair, the member of Georgian nobility known as the “Queen of Crypto”, told The Times that “the millionaire is changing” and looking for creative ways to invest, and the Warhol sale marks “the big shift happening in consciousness, money and culture”.

Ms Dadiani, 29, said art lovers and investors were “becoming more and more open to expanding their