THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Randy Kennedy
ONLINE---The selling of expensive contemporary art online has had a rocky history. Amazon is in discussions with dozens of smaller established galleries to begin offering contemporary and other fine art, moving well beyond the posters and inexpensive prints it now offers. The expected decision would represent Amazon’s re-entry into the art world, after it also made an early unsuccessful try, as partner to Sotheby’s, in 1999. A survey of more than 200 collectors by the international insurance company Hiscox, released in April, found that almost two-thirds had bought art online, without first seeing it in person, and that one-quarter of the collectors surveyed had spent $75,000 or more on works from online sellers or those they had seen only in JPEGs sent by galleries.
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Amazon Is Poised to Re-Enter Web Art Market
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