Right now, if there’s a lot of interest in a day-sale lot, sellers have to wait four months to consign and capitalize on the demand. George O’Dell, who is handling the day-to-day work on the platform says the idea is to make it easier for owners of art to capitalize on demand. There’s also the greater speed in which sellers can transact. That’s significantly lower than the auction houses charge. (The NFT element to the marketplace is probably better addressed at another time and in another post.) For example, the Amani Lewis work that appears at the top of this post which is also available as an edition of five NFTs. LiveArt is also allowing a few primary market artists to offer their works directly on the platform.
LiveArt handles all of the KYC and AML regulatory assurances as well.Īmani Lewis, Celestial Kiki: Ode to Lit Liv (2021) + Edition of 5 NFT Amani Lewis LiveArt won’t provide a warranty but, should a problem arise, the buyer will have access to the seller for redress. When all the boxes are checked, the art departs in the direction of its new owner and the cash travels by the speed of electrons to the account of the seller. Once terms are agreed upon, cash is deposited in escrow with LiveArt the work is shipped to a Delaware warehouse LiveArt inspects the work and verifies authenticity and condition. If they can come to an agreement, the transaction remains on the platform with buyer and seller interacting anonymously through LiveArt’s marketplace.
Instead, the buyer and seller can get comfortable on price or interest before revealing the work. Their marketplace will allow owners of art to interact with potential buyers without revealing the work they have to sell. But here’s where Chinn and company believe they have a secret sauce. Phase three, coming later this month, will be a marketplace. LiveArt.ai is rolling that out in an announcement today.
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Phase two is a free tool similar to Collectrium that will allow the user to upload their art collection and maintain a real-time dashboard of its valuation. You’ll be familiar with the technology if you’ve ever used Amazon or several other sites that now offer a similar type of extension. LiveArt has also built a browser extension that will allow their data to appear in a box on screen while the user is watching an auction or browsing an auction site. That tool is meant to provide price transparency for the private art market using public sales data as reference points. Pevzner and his team have applied machine learning to the data and built a visual interface that is available at LiveArt.ai. Re-christened LiveArt, the app now includes all for the data from the last decade’s worth of sales at the major auction houses on three continents along with an additional 6 million other records. Previously called Live Auction Art, the app allows anyone to follow the sales in real-time on their phone without the heavy tech drag of audio and video. The first phase has been taking place quietly over the past several months after LiveArt purchased an app that is incredibly popular among the art trade. Boris Pevzner, who previously built a platform called Collectrium that he sold to Christie’s, and John Auerbach, former eCommerce head for Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Gilt Groupe and others, along with George O’Dell, a 13-year auction house veteran, believe they can increase the signal and limit the noise in private art transactions while also increasing the supply.
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How to increase the trading volume of art without adding to the already bewildering confusion? The LiveArt crew has come up with a plan. If the art market behaved that way, the annual turnover of the art market would be $2.1 trillion which would require hundreds more Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips to accomplish. Equities can trade at 120 percent of nominal value in any given year.
At that rate, it would take nearly 27 years, or almost a generation, for all of the world’s art to turnover.Īrt isn’t like equities but other financial instruments, according to Chinn. Some $65 billion of that trades every year. According to Chinn, there’s $1.75 trillion in nominal art value in the homes and warehouses of the world right now. Collectors have few economic incentives to sell-everyone else wants to buy. Anyone selling or buying art right now will tell you the supply side is the constraint. For all of the comedy outlined above, the real problem in the private art market is supply. Now a group of former auction house heavyweights, including Sotheby’s former Chief Operating Officer, Adam Chinn, think they have a solution to the private market problem. Will Galleries Follow Suit?Īiming to Tap European Client Base, Sotheby's Will Open Private Sale Pop-Up in Monaco
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