THE ART NEWSPAPER, No. 156, MARCH 2005

Buy your art from Artprice's small ads

LYON, France. The French online art price database Artprice.com has launched a classified advertisement service for art. Vendors advertise their art on the site by paying between $49 (for one insertion) and $249 (for 10 insertions), with up to three illustrations in each ad. At the time of going to press, a wide range of pieces were on offer. The most expensive, (assuming that the Harry Kernoff portrait of Barry Fitzgerald offered by an Irish vendor at over $1 billion was a misprint) was Van Gogh's Young peasant-woman peeling potatoes, seen against the window being sold by a German vendor for $4,576,600, €3.5 million. Giacometti's Man walking in the rain, a "unique cast from original bronze sculpture", priced at $550,000 (€421,685), was on offer from a vendor in Lakewood. Among the least expensive was a Picasso print being sold by a Swedish advertiser, at $502, €390. The aim of this new venture, says the company, is to fit into a niche between low-value art sold on eBay, and high-priced items traded by galleries and auction houses, although some of the prices above are certainly not low. Artprice does not take any commission on any sale, the work of art must be by one of the artists in its database, wich will eliminate complete unknowns or artists who have never been sold at auction. The ads remain posted for 30 days, on Artprice and on the 936 other sites it owns. G.A.

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