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The Internet Fine Art Investor interrogates the worlds largest data bank of fine art auction records with over 4 million auction entries since 1700. Areas covered include paintings, prints, posters, drawings, miniatures, sculptures, photography and tapestry.


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PERSONAL RESEARCH

The Personal Research option is available for any lot reproduced in the 306,000 sale catalogues of our archives library. You can view the picture of an artwork and get more relevant information on the sale (past or upcoming).

AUCTION RECORDS

The real market value with 4 million auction results covering 306,000 artists from the 4th century to the present.

The auction results of 3.7 million auctioned art works are available on-line. Every day 2,000 auction results are collected from 2,900 international auction houses and added to the data banks.

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

Artists' search in upcoming Fine Art sales covering auction houses worldwide from local to international ones.

A unique watchdog of the auction records of 2,900 auction houses in 40 countries. Artprice receives between 9,000 and 12,000 sales catalogues every year and analyses over 900 art market periodicals from 120 countries. Details include date, place, sale and viewing times, complete descriptions of works and auction house details.

PRICE LEVELS AND INDEXES

Artists' unique price levels and indexes.

Price indices, price levels by category, trend of the bought-in rate, number of transactions and sales composition make for a readable vision of the market since 1997. Over 5,000 artist cards are available covering all categories of fine art.

BIOGRAPHIES

Emerging artists with their biographies and backgrounds.

The artist-biography department keep an eye on what's going on in the contemporary art scene and update the biographies of famous, confirmed and upcoming artists. Details include: galleries showing work, collections containing works, exhibitions, mediums and topic. All information is validated and certified by documents such as copies of diplomas, exhibition cards, and press articles.

SIGNATURES

Access to 36,000 signatures, monograms or symbols.

Details of over 10,000 artists of all time periods and all nationalities are available. For many artists, several signatures are recorded since their signature may have varied at different stages in their careers or depending on the medium used.

LATEST NEWS

World-wide updates of stolen items or developments in the art market.

REFERENCE BOOKS AND CD-ROMS FOR SALE

Over 50 books and cd-roms of reference on the art market published by Artprice and their publishing subsidiaries.