Internet-based Amazon launched on August 6 platform Art [/URL], which started selling works of art.
The works presented in the store, selling more than 150 American galleries and dealers from other countries. In total, the online store now sells 40 thousand art objects, which cost from $ 40 to 4.85 million.
The most expensive on Amazon at the moment is a picture of an American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell «Willie Gillis: Package from Home» (Willie Gillis: the sending out of the house), established in 1942. The site also sells Salvador Dali lithographs, paintings and lithographs by Claude Monet and Andy Warhol's autograph.
According to BBC News, Amazon sells either original works or copies of the limited edition. The company also guarantees that the sale will be to do the work of "high quality", on each of which the details will be reported. Find works of art can be produced by different characteristics: size, genre, style, images of objects, as well as price.
Based Amazon, founded in 1994 - the biggest online store in the world. Initially the company specialized in the sale of books, but then her work has become much wider. The company not only owns a platform for e-commerce, but also provides "cloud" hosting.
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Norman Rockwell
Willie Gillis: Package from Home by Norman Rockwell, 1941
Price: $ 4,850,000.00 + Free Shipping
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