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  Two Web companies newly flush with cash are making runs at the high-end art market, a traditionally brick-and-mortar industry that has so far resisted efforts to move it online.
  Last week, Manhattan-based Web auction exchange Paddle8 confirmed it had raised $6 million in funding from investors including artist Damien Hirst, Alexander von Furstenberg and members of the Mellon family. Founded in 2011, the company conducts art auctions, mostly of contemporary work, as well as live auctions for area nonprofits, among them the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  "We are focused on getting really well-known artists, pricing their work well, working with established consigners and getting that work out to market efficiently using our own technology," said Paddle8 co-founder Alexander Gilkes.
  The recent infusion of cash comes on top of a $3.7 million investment in 2012, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
  Also in April, Berlin-based Auctionata, which has an expanding New York City presence, announced a $20.2 million funding round. The firm specializes in auctioning traditional consignment art via the Web using a mix of live-broadcast Internet auctions and high-definition video content.
  Auctionata's staff has grown to 110 from a handful during the past 12 months. And company executives confirm an aggressive New York-area real estate investment, including the planned construction of a 5,000-square-foot TV studio.
  "We want to broadcast from a high midtown tower, with the city as a background, since that is the image of New York around the world," said Alexander Zacke, Auctionata's chief executive.
  The two companies have different strategies. The typical price point for the art sold on Paddle 8 is about $10,000, so it doesn't directly take on powerhouses like New York's Sotheby's, London's Christie's and Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.
  "What we're going after is the low-mid end of the market to create a global community of collectors," said Aditya Julka, a co-founder of the company. "That way, our back end can scale very efficiently."
  Paddle8 managers would not disclose total firm revenue other than to say in the first four months of 2013 total bidding activity—that is, the sum of all bids for all art sold—was $10 million.
  "With the image of [New York] literally behind us [at the planned TV studio], we feel we can directly attack the traditional consignment shops like Sotheby's and Christie's," Mr. Zacke said.
  He would not disclose firm revenue directly, but a company spokesperson estimated sales would reach the $20 million range by the end of this year.
  Online art markets have a spotty history. An early effort, started in 1999 by Sotheby's to transition some of its business online, never took off.
  More recently, online auction and publishing house Artnet, with main offices in Berlin and Manhattan, saw a reported drop of 174% in profit from operations in 2012 over 2011. The decline came despite what CEO Jacob Pabst says was a website that fetched 10 million page views, 2.3 million visits and 1.6 million unique visitors each month, as well as earning online art revenue of $15 million per year.
  This drop sparked a reorganization of the company. Chief Executive Hans Neuendorf stepped down, and the company closed its glossy print magazine.
  "The high end of the market is not a volume business and is not where the growth can or will happen," said Anders Petterson, founder and managing director of ArtTactic Ltd., a London-based art-market research and advisory company. Mr. Petterson said Paddle 8's market—at the $10,000 mark or below—will be where the action is. That is "where more than 80% of auction transactions take place," he said.
  Crawley Boxing Club’s junior star Matarr Wanda (16) wrote his name into the history books securing the England National Development Championship title on The Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
  Wanda is pictured, above, with coach Paddy Harmy and chairman Geoff Hopcraft. His opponent Jake Simpkins from the South Derbyshire ABC and he carried an established record into the contest.
  The first round saw both boxers trying to establish dominance and finished up even with nothing to split them.
  Round two saw Thomas Bennett Community College pupil Matarr up his game, showing he had the better skill as he started to outbox Simpkins with some very useful two-punch combinations.
  He solved the problem of Simpkin’s awkward crouching style, bringing up some well timed hooks and uppercuts.
  The third round saw Wanda pulling out all the stops, beating Simpkins to the punch time and again forcing the referee to jump in and administer a standing eight count towards the end.
  Matarr took a unanimous decision from the judges and now looks forward to a short rest before resuming training for next year’s Youth championships.
  After touring this year’s degree shows, we’re profiling a series of graduates who we feel produced outstanding creative work. Here, photographer Paulina Korobkiewicz discusses her graduation project, Disco Polo, which documents Eastern Poland’s colourful architecture.
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