The market for buying, selling and learning about visual art online is getting a significant boost today. Cleveland said Artsy has seen auctions quadruple in number on the platform in the last year, and now Artsy accounts for one-third of all received bids for auctions it hosts, and nine percent of all sales. Some of the most prominent are worth noting. Andrew Sugrue co-founder of Avenir Growth Capital and formerly both of L Catterton and Shumway Capital, and a repeat Artsy investor also joined the board as part of the round. Art was one of the how much money artsy makes movers when it came to early e-commerce efforts, with startups in the s building portals to sell work from established dealers and artists, and companies like eBay and Amazon partnering with the auction houses to bring lots and their auction ethos to the web. Much of that never really went anywhere, though, partly because of skepticism about whether it was possible to be able to authenticate or appreciate work well eno...