Valuation, Information, and Provenance

 

 

Valuation

 

Art Sales Index

http://artsalesindex.artinfo.com/artsalesindex/asi

Search for realized prices by first entering the name of the artist. Additional search limiters include medium, title, dimensions, and year of work.

 

Artvalue.com

http://www.artvalue.com

Offers "free and unlimited on-line access to auction results, illustrated with pictures from auction houses around the world." Some areas of the site require a free registration.

 

Bonhams

http://www.bonhams.com

The item search will retrieve information about upcoming auctions and price estimates. A past and upcoming auction search and dates and locations of appraisal days are also provided.

 

Christie's

http://www.christies.com

Auction results by date and information about upcoming sales. Print out a form from this site to request a free "auction estimate" of the value of a picture or collectible. The auction estimate requires a registration. You may also want to search for past and upcoming auctions.

 

Freeman's Archive Search

http://www.freemansauction.com/asp/archivesearch.asp?t=892389&

Search archived catalogues using category, or keyword, or estimate, or a combination of all three.

 

Skinner Archive Search

http://www.skinnerinc.com/asp/archivesearch.asp

Search all archive catalogs by category or keywords. Results are limited to the last five years.

 

Sotheby's

http://www.sothebys.com

Event details, a specialist directory, and information about appraisals. Using a form on the site, ask one of the specialists to give an "auction estimate" of  an artwork or a collectible. The auction estimate form is also available in PDF format. A sold lot archive search is also available.

 

 

Information

 

Search Index to Print Catalogues Raisonne

http://www.printcouncil.org/search.html

"An online edition of The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists by Timothy A. Riggs, expanded and updated by Lauren B. Hewes. The database now contains entries for European and American printmakers, print publishers, and photographers and Japanese printmakers and photographers."

 

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System

http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/saam.htm

Databases offered are: art inventories, a photograph archives catalog, and a pre-1877 exhibition catalog index.

 

 

 

Provenance

 

The Art Loss Register

http://www.artloss.com

Requires a free registration to search whether an item has been reported lost or stolen.

 

The Getty Provenance Index Databases

http://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/pi/servlet.starweb?path=pi/pi.web

Information from selected sales catalogs, public collections, and archival documents.

 

Holocaust Claims Processing Office

http://www.claims.state.ny.us

Information about submitting a claim and a directory of several useful web links.

 

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal

http://tinyurl.com/6ff46v

Aims to "provide a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)."

 

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