Art Collections a Click Away: $250 to $1,000

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By William Grimes

WASHINGTON---The company did not create Amazon Art to sell Impressionist masterpieces. As its representatives were quick to point out, 95 percent of the works offered cost less than $10,000. About a third of them cost between $250 and $1,000. To entice them, it conducted a far-reaching art dragnet, approaching galleries in the United States and a few foreign countries with a simple proposition: put your work on our site and, for a percentage commission on each sale, we will expose you to our 100 million customers in North America and 200 million customers worldwide. To date, the company has signed up more than 180 galleries and offers more than 43,000 two-dimensional works from about 4,500 artists. [link]