Posted September 3, 2007:
Online art auction price database provider artprice.com eliminates a significant shortfall in their arsenal of available client services with the introduction of artprice Images, a searchable database containing the complete contents of 290,000 auction catalogues dating from 1960 to the present, totaling several million images of individual works of art. Previously, artprice users had to research auction selling prices and related data without access to corresponding images of art by the artists they were researching. That is no longer the case-- images are now available.
As an aside, the reason access to images is so important in art price research is that when researching a particular work of art by a particular artist, the prices that are most relevant to the value of that work of art are those of works similar in size, subject matter, composition, and so on. Without images, you can only guess at the degree of similarity with respect to subject matter and composition between a work of art you're researching and the art whose auction price records you're accessing, but with images you can assess that degree of similarity instantly and accurately.
The best part about artprice Images is that artprice.com is offering the service as an add-on to its current database subscriptions for a remarkably low price of only $69 per year-- with combined auction price database & image subscriptions starting as low as $118 per year-- and making artprice.com by far the most affordable of all comparable art price database services (competing database services as comprehensive as artprice.com typically cost anywhere from hundreds to several thousand dollars of dollars per year). Visit the artprice.com website to learn more.
I recently took the new artprice Images service for a test drive, and can report that it's quick, easy to use, and interfaces nicely with corresponding price results. Images are viewable in two sizes, the larger being more than adequate in color, clarity, and detail for the majority of research purposes. Each image is reproduced exactly as it appears on the page of its corresponding auction catalogue-- in fact the entire page of that auction catalogue is reproduced-- the occasional problem with this method of reproduction being that some auction catalogue pages show more than one image, and those individual images are not always clearly identified. Seasoned art researchers familiar with the artists whose art they're researching can usually figure out which painting is which on a page with multiple images, but that's not always easy for amateur researchers who may not know that much about particular artists or their oeuvres. It's a minor drawback, but worth noting.
The upshot? artprice.com continues to be my first choice for comprehensive art price research-- it always has been, but now it's even better.
Please visit the artprice.com website for complete information and subscription options on all database products.
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