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Featured Databases

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American Book Prices Current
An annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction (from North America, the UK, with sales from other European countries, 1975–).

Appraisals Research Guide

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ArchiveGrid
Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid representing historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

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Art Sales Catalogues Online 1600–1900
Contains a growing collection of images of complete historical art sales catalogs from libraries in Europe and the USA. Included is the online edition of the Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques by Frits Lugt.

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Artnet—Fine Art Auction Database
Research fine art and design with over 4 million illustrated auction prices from more than 500 international houses (1985 to the present). Available to Getty staff and scholars only (contact Reference at x7390 for on-site access information).

Collecting and Provenance Research
Databases contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records that cover the period from the late 16th century to the early 20th century.

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SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
A bibliographic citation database of auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as important private sales (16th c. to the present).


Art Sales

Art Dealers Association of America FT

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Art Sales Catalogues Online 1600–1900 (includes Lugt's Répertoire Online) (FT,I)

Artline (FT,I)

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Artnet (FT,I)

Artprice.com (FT,I)

ArtValue.com (Guide Mayer) (FT,I)

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Blouin Art Sales Index (FT)

Corpus of Works of Art Offered at Auction in Italy, 1800–1914

Invaluable (FT,I)

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SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs


Collecting

Agnew's stock books

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ArchiveGrid, CIT

Art Loss Register

CARP: Chinese Art - Research into Provenance

Cultural Property Advice (FT,I)

The Frick Collection: Center for the History of Collecting in America (FT)

Galerie Heinemann

Holocaust Assets Collection

International Federation for Art Research (IFAR): Catalogue Raisonnés


Getty Public Resources

Appraisals Research Guide

Artists' Biographies Research Guide

Artists' Signatures Research Guide

Collecting and Provenance Research

Collectors Files

Duveen Brothers Resources

Goupil and Cie / Boussod, Valadon and Cie Stock Books


See Also: General Resources