With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking Shake Up The Art Market

Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions -- a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums -- into the Digital Era. But, today, in spite of the fact that eCommerce has become a thriving global industry, with online marketplaces collectively topping $1 trillion in sales last year, one market in particular has managed to resist the disruptive influence of technology and online commerce: The grand old world of fine art.

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