Richardson Memorial Library: Art Market

Provides auction sale (1920s–present) and provenance information with images for all types of fine art and other objects, as well as arms and armor, weapons, musical instruments, and games. Its focus is on Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Artnet includes two auction price databases: one for fine arts and design and one for decorative arts. These include records from over 500 auction houses since 1985. Over half of the records are illustrated. Search options include artist (for fine arts and design), medium or object type, and auction house or gallery.

Information on over 270,000 artists. Information varies in depth, but may include biographical, book, and periodical references; auction records; museums that own artwork; and images.

Online contemporary art brokerage site that includes biographical information, gallery pricing, and images. Searchable by artist, gallery, theme, tag, etc.

Access to Europe's online auction marketplace. Catawiki hosts over 300 weekly auctions across 80 categories.

Access to the auction house's e-catalogues and corresponding auction results, 1998–present.

Access to the auction house's e-catalogues. In order to access auction results, users must create free individual accounts.

Under the title "German Sales," almost 10,000 historical auction catalogues mainly published in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, are currently being made available online and in open access.

HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries, including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives as well as content digitized locally by libraries. SLAM has access to open-access content. Select "Full Text" and "Full View" for open-access content.

Free public access to digitized auction catalogues, searchable by auction house and by words within text.

Very large digital collection of historic auction catalogues amassed by French collector Jacques-Antoine Doucet (1853–1929)

Digitized copies of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Watson Library collection of over 6,000 auction catalogues.

Provides open access to 22,000+ digitized sales catalogues dating before 1945, and searchable by keyword, city, country, and/or date.

Data-driven index to analyze individual artists by current market performance.