Art Provenance Research

Compiled from 7,000 auction catalogs held by 21 libraries including the New York Public Library, Library of Congress, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Frick Art Reference Library. Includes an index with approximately 60,000 owners' names.

This three-volume set covers old master and early English pictures arranged alphabetically by artist and then chronologically.

This index focuses on Latin American art that covers a wide range of periods and styles. It is unique in its coverage of 30 years of sale results and the inclusion of over 1,100 scholarly essays and biographies, some never before published in the English language. Entries, covering the years 1969 to 1999, number over 30,000 lots. The prices realized are from every auction house in North America and are listed in descending order by price within each auction season.

Covers Sotheby's, Christie's, Swann Galleries and Butterfield & Butterfield from 1980 to the present.

The Getty Provenance Index has descriptions of more than 22,000 catalogs, from which more than 1.8 million records have been extracted. Also included are private contract sales through which collectors were able to acquire artworks during an extended period of exhibition.

Browse through a selection of 22,000+ sales catalogues from the 17th century to 1945, many of which are annotated.