This publication offers access to images of complete historical art sales catalogues for the period 1600 to 1900 and includes the complete Lugt's Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques intéressant l'Art ou la Curiosité. Lists auction sales catalogs holdings for the Frick Art Reference Library and other institutions. Allows full-text online access to a number of catalogs listed in the database.
Lists more than two million items sold at hundreds of auction houses worldwide. Sales from the early 1980s to the present are included, with new sales added daily. Covers fine arts (including paintings, watercolors, sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, and installations). Covers decorative arts from 2002 to the present. Includes unsold lots. Images available for many of the lots.
Index of auction sales results and images from 1700 to the present. Coverage is extensive from around 1990. Contains more than 4 million records from forty countries. Offers full-text searching of more than 290,000 scanned auction catalogs. Covers fine arts (including paintings, drawings, photography, prints, posters, sculpture, installations, miniatures, and tapestries).
A database of information about artists, including names, birth and death dates, state or local affiliation, fields in which artist worked, book and periodical references to artist, dealers and museums where works may be viewed, auction prices of works, some biographical details, etc.
Indexes and abstracts the contents of more than 4,000 periodicals, as well as many books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition and dealers' catalogs. Includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor indexes: Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (RAA), and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA). Note that the database search includes the BHA (covering 1990-2007), the International Bibliography of Art (covering the years 2008 and part of 2009), and the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, includes records that cover 1975–1989.
International coverage of auction sales results, from 1986 to the present, includes the full catalog text and selected images for sales from more than 150 auction houses. Covers fine arts (including paintings, prints, photography, and sculpture) and decorative arts (including furniture, silver, porcelain, ancient and nonwestern works of art, tapestries, rare books, and collectibles). Includes unsold lots.
The Montias Database, compiled by late Yale University Professor John Michael Montias, contains information from 1,280 inventories of goods (paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, etc.) owned by people living in Amsterdam from 1597 to 1681. The inventories are drawn from the Gemeentearchief (municipal archive, now known as the Stadsarchief).
Lists auction sale catalogs owned by more than 20 research institutions mainly in the United States and Canada. Records can be searched by date of sale, place of sale, catalog title, auction house name, sellers, institutional holdings, and other information.
