“Tell me what you collect, tell me how you collect, and I will tell you who you are.” – Jean Willy Mestach (1926-2014). As the late artist and collector of African art Mestach aptly insinuates, assessing someone’s private art collection is a subtle yet indisputably revealing glimpse into their mind and soul. Yet, although what one collects will always be unique to each individual, how one collects is slowly yet surely following the trend of almost everything else: going online. By Fadi Yazigi Indeed, the art world has undergone great changes in the last few years with the rise of digitized art commerce, as hundreds of online art selling platforms have been created worldwide in response to a growing demand. Whether in terms of genre, media or style of the artwork or in terms of the artist’s notoriety, the range offered by the international e-commerce websites
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