AppraiseItNet - Provides accurate, expert appraisals of antiques, fine art, decorative art, and collectibles to customers over the Internet.
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) - A non-profit membership organization of the nation's leading dealers in the fine arts. Its purposes are to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession. Each ADAA member is an experienced and knowledgeable dealer in the types of art he or she offers for sale.
ArtBusiness.com - Complete art services, art appraisal, art price data, news, articles, and market information to art collectors, artists, and fine arts professionals. Appraises all works of fine art and offers expert advice and consulting on buying, selling, and collecting. Database contains over 3,000,000 price records and biographical information on over 200,000 artists.
ArtFact - The world's largest searchable database of art, antiques, collectibles and jewelry auction sales results. Its database has grown to encompass over 4 million public auction sales results from over 350 auction houses, with over 150 providing full-text transcriptions of original catalogue entries.
artprice.com - Records data about past auctions and future auctions for paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, miniatures, photography, posters, tapestries, as well as ceramics and books when signed by an artist.
Blouin Art Sales Index (ASI) - The ASI database contains art auction results since the early 1950's. Authoritative database of over 4 million records and access to 3,000 artist indices who have sold at auction over the past fifty years.
Christie's: Estates, Appraisals and Valuations -
Christie's has prepared authoritative valuations since 1766. Christie's oversee every aspect of a valuation, recognizing and accommodating the many special needs of executors, solicitors and other professional advisors.
Christie's fully illustrated valuation documents are an industry standard. Its international team provides valuations in more than 80 collecting fields that can serve as the basis for consignments, insurance and taxation and are indispensable for collection management and informed estate planning.
International Fine Art Appraisers (IFAA) -
Members are expected to establish and maintain the highest level of ethical conduct, professional standards, and methodological uses of appraisal valuation estimates based upon their knowledge and extensive "hands on" experience. Ten years of active fine art experience is the minimum requirement for consideration for membership in the organization.
International Society of Appraisers (ISA) - Formed to support its member needs and serve the public by producing highly qualified and ethical appraisers who are recognized authorities in professional personal property appraising. Its members include many of the country's most respected independent appraisers, consultants, estate liquidators, auctioneers, gallery owners, and dealers.
MutualArt.com: Art Appraisal - MutualArt.com's experts have over 30 years of experience in art appraisal and authentication, assisting private collectors, corporations, insurance companies and legal professionals. Our experts are members of International Fine Art Appraisers (IFAA) and have worked for leading auction houses including Sotheby's and Christie's. Extensive database and vast pool of resources includes thousands of fine art books and catalogues, in addition to millions of auction records from hundreds of the world's leading auction houses.
Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers - Skinner offers a world renown staff of art and antiques specialists and service personnel through its New York office and Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts full-service galleries. Skinner experts appraise, catalogue, market, promote and auction the over 500,000 antiques, art and collectible objects sold at over 60 Skinner auctions, annually.
Sotheby's: Valuations -
Provides fair market valuations, valuations for charitable donations, insurance valuations for loans, indemnification valuations for government applications and auction estimates for sale.
A completed valuation includes detailed property descriptions and itemised values in a bound document with an affidavit and summary page. Sotheby’s valuations are widely accepted by the Internal Revenue Service, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, tax and estate planning professionals and insurance firms.
Collect Fine Art - Offers a world-class selection or will help you find what you want whether it is a fine print for your living room, a piece of contemporary sculpture for your garden, a portrait of your spouse - or a Cezanne watercolor, Henry Moore bronze, or Edvard Munch woodcut.
Dorotheum - The Dorotheum in Vienna, founded by Emperor Joseph I in 1707, holds the leading position in Vienna's art market and, at the same time, ranges among the top auction houses around the world.
eyestorm - A place to discover, explore and acquire contemporary art and photography.
Fine Art Site - A moderated marketplace for collectors to buy and sell quality works of fine art.
Left Coast Art Virtual Gallery - Outstanding modern and contemporary art beautifully displayed, an exceptionally tasteful layout plus interesting and entertaining articles.
Mixed Greens - View and buy new work. Search the The Mix to get comprehensive listings of all of the work at Mixed Greens. Works are categorized by size, color, price, type of work (sculpture, painting, etc.) and more. The results of any search can take you directly to any artist's homepage, where you can get a candid glimpse of the artist's personality or an enlargement of any work. Click on the camera icon to see a web video about each artist. From the artist's homepage view an entire portfolio through a custom-built viewing screen where you can scroll through an entire body of work by clicking on a representative set of thumbnails, or by using the right and left arrows. Also, answer a few brief questions based on cultural and recreational interests, and Mixed Greens will match you up with artists who have similar tastes.
Nart - Founded in Paris in 1997 by Antoine Beaussant and Bruno Chabannes, Nart carried out the first online auction live from Paris's famed Drouot auction house that same year. Nart has become the favored partner for the country's leading art events.
NeoImages - Thousands of recent artworks by over 400 emerging and established New York artists.
NextMonet.com - Search extensive database for different types, styles, and media of art, price ranges, or by the name of an individual artist.
Novica - Art, crafts, tapestries, paintings, ceramics and creative works from world artists.
Onview.com - An art portal and resource where users can research, learn about and purchase fine art and antiques directly online.
PaintingsDirect.com - Representing over 500 artists from more than 40 countries, the site boasts over 10,000 original paintings, photographs and limited edition prints.
Photocollect - Fine art vintage, modern and contemporary photography.
PicassoMio - A leading destination to discover curated modern and contemporary art and design. Clients who have purchased artworks by artists shown on PicassoMio.com include private collectors, businesses, museums and trade buyers, such as interior designers, auction houses and other art galleries and museums.
Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers - Skinner offers a world renown staff of art and antiques specialists and service personnel through its New York office and Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts full-service galleries. Skinner experts appraise, catalogue, market, promote and auction the over 500,000 antiques, art and collectible objects sold at over 60 Skinner auctions, annually.
Wolf's - International fine arts auctioneers and appraisers specializing in the sale of paintings, works on paper, antiques, furniture, decorative arts, fine jewelry and more from estates and collections at auction.
Art Connection - By entering the Art Connection system any Internet user can search for any Art Connection members by artist, subject or style. The Art Connection system will search through a member's gallery and produce a list (pictorial and textual) of the various requested works, e.g. marine paintings, still life or whatever is sought.
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) - A non-profit membership organization of the nation's leading dealers in the fine arts. Its purposes are to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession. Each ADAA member is an experienced and knowledgeable dealer in the types of art he or she offers for sale.
art in context - Serves the international fine art community and general public by providing an online reference library for the publication and dissemination of information about artists and where to find their work.
Art Sales Index (ASI) - The ASI database contains art auction results since the early 1950's. Authority database of over 250,000 artist names who have sold at auction over the past fifty years.
artprice.com - A leader in art auction information.
ArtBusiness.com - Complete art services, art appraisal, art price data, news, articles, and market information to art collectors, artists, and fine arts professionals. Appraises all works of fine art and offers expert advice and consulting on buying, selling, and collecting. Database contains over 3,000,000 price records and biographical information on over 200,000 artists.
ArtFact - The world's largest searchable database of art, antiques, collectibles and jewelry auction sales results. Its database has grown to encompass over 4 million public auction sales results from over 350 auction houses, with over 150 providing full-text transcriptions of original catalogue entries.
artline - Content and portal site - a premier guide to fine art, art associations and dealers, artists, art events, and art news.
artnet.com - Premier site on the web for art content and e-commerce: online auctions, member galleries, printstore, artists' web sites, magazine, bookstore, art research tools and resources.
artprice.com - Records data about past auctions and future auctions for paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, miniatures, photography, posters, tapestries, as well as ceramics and books when signed by an artist.
ArtTactic - ArtTactic was set up by Anders Petterson in 2001, as a response to an increasing interest for responsive and dynamic art market research and commentary. ArtTactic has developed methodologies and analytical frameworks for the art market often used by economists and people in the financial markets.
Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market - Recognizing their tremendous potential as research tools for the study of provenance (a work of art's history of ownership), and the history of aesthetics, taste, patronage, and collecting, the Getty Research Institute acquires the records of various players in the art market.
eyestorm - Retailer for limited-edition artworks by contemporary artists and photographers. The company works closely with more than 120 artists, including Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Helmut Newton and William Wegman. eyestorm has forged alliances with contemporary art gurus The Saatchi Gallery, and the highly respected photographic agency Magnum, enabling it to offer work by young British names like Dexter Dalwood, Jenny Saville and Gavin Turk as well as special editions from master documentary photographers such as Steve McCurry, Martin Parr and Dennis Stock.
icollector - Independent connection to the world's auction houses, dedicated to trading antiques, fine art and premium collectibles on the Internet.
ModernSculpture.com - Offering a full range of services for discriminating private and corporate clients. Representing today's artists worldwide.
Norton's Fine Art & Framing - Carries a wide variety of artwork, including original watercolors, paintings, lithographs, etchings, serigraphs, landscapes, historical maritime, sports, and St. Louis art, by regional as well as national and international artists.
World of Art and Antiques - Online gallery featuring works by artists and artisans, along with antiques and collectibles of world wide age and origin.
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