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Auction and Sales Catalog Research Guide

Full Text Resources

 

Art Sales Catalogues Online (ASCO) (subscription resource)

  • ASCO contains a growing collection of images of complete historical art sales catalogs from libraries in Europe and the USA. Included is the online edition of the Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques by Frits Lugt.

  • Over 32,000 Full Text Catalogs.

  • Over 65,000 Lugt Records

  • Coverage from 1600-1900

 

Getty Research Portal (freely available)

  • The Getty Research Portal is an online platform providing global access to digitized art history texts. The Portal is comprised of catalog records that link to full, digitized texts hosted by the contributing institutions or their service providers.
  • An advanced search for Type= "Auction Catalogs" will retrieve digitized catalogs from contributing libraries. 

 

Wildenstein Plattner Institute Sales Catalogues (freely available)

  • Browse through a selection of 22,000+ sales catalogs from the 17th century to 1945, many of which are annotated. Search for sales catalogs by entering a keyword or by city, country, and/or date.