Answered By: Bobray Bordelon
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  • Art market research: a guide to methods and sources
    • Print copies in Firestone Data and Statistical Services and Marquand Art Library, call number N5200.M39 2014.
  • NADAC for data on a wide range of arts
  • CPANDA's Literature Database (1965-2012) and NADAC Publications (1942+) for publications on a wide range of arts
  • Art prices
    • CollectorIQ Fine Art Database. Auction database of fine art covering approximately 6.1 million lots representing 327,476 artists. 1986+/
    • ArtNet, Provides access to art auction sales databases (Fine Art and Design and Decorative Art & Antiques). Search options include artist (for the former), medium or object type, and auction house or gallery. Art market performance reports may be available to PU affiliates by e-mailing marquand@princeton.edu and noting the desired artist.
    • Artprice.com.  An index to results from auction sales of art (drawings, installations, miniatures, painting, photography, posters, prints, sculpture and tapestry). 1960-present, but older years will be added over time.
    • MutualArt includes art market analysis.
    • Artkhade.  Provides auction sale 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.  1920s+.
  • Sources providing catalogs 
  • Buying a Work of Art or an Artist? Exploring the Impact of Visual and Social Features on Art Prices (A novel dataset of 34,200 auction sales records, including images, artists’ attributes, and market information, encompassing 590 living contemporary artists spanning 17 years (1996 to 2012) across 23 countries)
  • Search the Catalog for the publisher "European Fine Art Foundation".  They publish many statistical and analytical reports on the international art market. More recent reports can be found on their website.
  • Read Rebecca Barham's "What is it worth? a guide to art valuation and market resources", RUSQ Vol. 54, No. 4 (2015).
  • Note:  You will see Mei Moses Fine Art Index quoted widely from the past.  The site has been discontinued and all data taken down. Also note, the Blouin databases ceased.

 

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