Amazon Launches Fine Art Store

 Back in early July I posted that Amazon was considering selling fine art online (click HERE for background).  The previous post noted there were signs of success in selling fine art online, with Paddle 8 and Artnet platforms. The new Amazon fine art store is now open and populated with fine art offerings.

Although still listed as in Beta, click HERE to visit the new Amazon Fine Art Store. I searched the Amazon Fine Art store for Warhol, it came back with about 112 offerings, with 72 of them being over $10,000.00. There is a Claude Monet with a listed price of $1.45 million (see image).

Amazon has now launched fine art sales with some listings of over $1 million.  Art is being supplied to the venture by several galleries, including Paddle 8 in New York, Holden Luntz in Miami, McLoughlin Gallery in San Francisco, Modernbook in San Francisco and Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle.

CNN Money reports on the new Amazon art sales

Will people who buy books, electronics and movies online also like to buy million-dollar works of art that way?

Amazon hopes so.

The online retailer on Tuesday announced the launch ofAmazonArt, on which it offers more than 40,000 works offine art from over 150 galleries and dealers.

Artists whose works are being offered include ClaudeMonet's Fragment de Nymphéas and L'Enfant a la tasse, portrait de Jean Monet; Andy Warhol's Hamburger Michel and Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis: Package from Home. Those pieces are each listed for more than $1 million, with Rockwell's work listed at $4.85 million. But the site also has numerous pieces, including prints, photographs and some unique works, listed for under $200, with some
as low as $25.

Among the galleries offering works through the site are Paddle 8 in New York, Holden Luntz in Miami, McLoughlin Gallery in San
Francisco, Modernbook in San Francisco and Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle.

Source: CNN Money