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Auction Resources
Unless otherwise noted, these resources are available at the Art Institute of Chicago, the SAIC campus, or from other locations with an ARTIC username and password.
Provides biographical and professional data on over 120,000 American artists from the early 16th century through the present.
Digitized copies of selected art sales catalogues from 1600-1900. Art Sales Catalogues also includes the complete Lugt's Répertoire online database.
Provides access to over 3.5 million entries for fine art sold at auction. Items qualify for entry when they exceed a certain starting price.
Provides unedited auction information on over 4 million items sold from more than 250 major auction houses worldwide. Many records are illustrated.
Contains over 2 million illustrated fine art auction records from more than 500 major auction houses. The database excludes works that fail to meet certain attribution and price criteria, i.e., single prints, photographs, posters, books, and ceramics with a low estimate below $300.00; artists with a qualified name. e.g. after, attributed to, circle of, school of, studio of, etc.
Contains over 4 million auction entries from over 2,900 auction houses worldwide. The database includes all auction listings regardless of attribution and price.
Gordon's & Lawrence's Combined Fine Print Database includes Gordon's Print Price Annual (1986-current year) and Lawrence's Dealer Print Prices (1992-current year). Provides auction activity and dealer catalog prices on old master, modern, and contemporary fine prints; decorative, sporting, botanical, etc. prints; posters; livres d'artiste, books and periodicals with original graphics.
Covers auction and dealer sales for photographs of all styles and periods, as well as books and periodicals with original photographs.
A freely-available database of collectors' marks, including stamped and written marks of private and public collections, marks used by dealers, mounters, printers, publishers, and engravers, as well as studio and estate stamps.
Lists more than 100,000 art sales catalogs. A libraries database component indicates libraries which hold these catalogs. The Répertoire online can be searched on Lugt number, date, place, provenance, auction house and existing copies, but the database does not indicate what individual works sold for.
The International Poster Center's index to sales prices from their auctions.
This union catalog of art and rare book sale catalogs provides access to holdings of specific sales catalogs in major research collections, but does not indicate what individual works sold for.
