Art & Architecture Collection > AUCTION SALES INDEXES: Books, CD-ROM's and On-Line Services

5. Electronic Resources for Auction Sales

ARTFACT

Dates Covered: 1986 to present

Contents:

• over 1,000,000 auction records
• fine arts
• decorative arts
• full text of catalogue entries
• contains images

ARTNET On-Line Services

Fee based. By subscription.
Dates Covered: 1985 to present

Contents:

• over 1.5 million artworks
• 500 auction houses in 28 countries
• over 600,000 full-color images
• fine arts

Searchable by:

• artist name
• auction house name
• title key word
• medium
• size or price
• work date and sale date

ARTNET is not available at NYPL.

ART SALES INDEX

Dates Covered: 1990-1995
Contents:

• Over 455,000 auction sales
• 77,000 artists
• From 10,000 auctions
• 510 auction houses

LEONARD'S: Combined Price Index of Art Auctions

Dates Covered: September 1980-August 1994
Also includes prices from Leonard's ANNUAL Price Index of Prints, Posters & Photographs. Volumes 1-3, August 1991-June 1994

MAYER'S International Auction Records

Dates Covered: 1988 to 1993

Contents:

• 400,000 auction records

Searchable by:

• artist
• art form
• school
• title of work
• price
• year produced
• sold by
• city
• date of sale

SCIPIO (Sales Catalogs Index Project Input Online)

[MAZ 88-2402]
Dates Covered: 1981 to 1985

Contents:

• Paintings
• Prints
• Sculpture
• Ceramics
• Decorative Arts
• Furniture
• Drawings
• Jewelry
• Instruments
• Photographs
• Silver
• Watercolors
• Rugs
• Arms & Armour

Notes: Contains holdings of auction catalogs at: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, and supplemented by Library of the Getty Center and the National Gallery of Art Library. Searchable by date of sale, auction house, phrase or word, title, phrase or word, place of sale, collector/seller.

 

 

Written by Lee Robinson, with markup assistance from Caroline Gifford
June, 1996