[firstimer]

Hey guys - its been a few months, which site would you recommend these days? I tend to only buy maybe 2 or three pieces a year, but as my budgets get a little more serious, I figure its best to invest into a subscription.

Generally tend to buy contemporary art, however starting to look into Terry O'Neill photography. Would anyone know if these websites include photogs?

[trapnel1]

www.findartinfo.com/  will give you prices up to the end of 2015 with limited information at no cost.... 

[firstimer]

Thank you for this The problem with contemporary art i guess is that the prices are so vastly different form 2 months ago let alone 2 years The search continues!

Aug 12, 2017 22:14:15 GMT 1 trapnel1 said:

www.findartinfo.com/  will give you prices up to the end of 2015 with limited information at no cost.... 

[Harveyn]

I am looking to sign up to an auction result database and my first thought is Artnet Database.

The individual rollover subscription appears to be quite good but the number of searches at only 10 per month seems low. Very low.  Also I am not sure if this refers only to specific searches against one artist and can I still view auction results in some sort of general capacity which is unlimited?

Any Artnet users out there?

Any other providers that you would recommend?

I was using Blouin Art Sales Index but I am not sure how comprehensive its searches are.

[nobokov]

Oct 17, 2017 9:28:56 GMT 1 Harveyn said:

I am looking to sign up to an auction result database and my first thought is Artnet Database.

The individual rollover subscription appears to be quite good but the number of searches at only 10 per month seems low. Very low.  Also I am not sure if this refers only to specific searches against one artist and can I still view auction results in some sort of general capacity which is unlimited?

Any Artnet users out there?

Any other providers that you would recommend?

I was using Blouin Art Sales Index but I am not sure how comprehensive its searches are.

You can try widewalls.ch. It's free and if you search the artist, you can find a tab titles auction results.

[Alpha Cap]

Oct 17, 2017 9:28:56 GMT 1 Harveyn said:

I am looking to sign up to an auction result database and my first thought is Artnet Database.

The individual rollover subscription appears to be quite good but the number of searches at only 10 per month seems low. Very low.  Also I am not sure if this refers only to specific searches against one artist and can I still view auction results in some sort of general capacity which is unlimited?

Any Artnet users out there?

Any other providers that you would recommend?

I was using Blouin Art Sales Index but I am not sure how comprehensive its searches are.

I use Artprice and I find it usefull.

It's cheaper.

[aml]

I use Artprice, but find it is far from comprehensive, unfortunately. The plus side is that the searches are unlimited, and subscriptions can often be had at a discount.

[Pattycakes]

I use Artnet, Artprice and Gordon's. Artnet is painfully expensive but frankly has no equal when it comes to researching paintings, works on paper, etc, I don't even want to say what it costs me per year.

Out of interest what are you going to be looking up? In this I mean will it mostly be prints ? If so I'd suggest you try Gordon's.

Gordon's is the professional print price database, it's a one off fee for annual online access (IFRC about $500 p/a with the photography database as well) It's absolutely incredible and the information in gives far exceeds any other database for prints, even Artnet. However, you need to know how to use it, there are no images, and you'll need to know the name of the print or the catalogue raisonne reference in order to look something up, but it has prices that go back to the mid 80s. It will give you global price results in multiple currencies on exchange when sold, and often give you fuller cataloguing detail than Artnet provides. It's not the easiest to navigate but it's brilliant.

www.gordonsart.com

Oh and one order gives you 2 user names so you can share with a friend if you want to.

[Harveyn]

Thanks folks. I am primarily looking at the results for original paintings as opposed to prints. Sounds like Artnet is the one for me but I will check out Artprice.

[t-dot]

As expensive as Artnet is, it's by far the best! I have no experience with this but i know some people who use Auction Club as an alternative.

[soam24]

Can someone please tell me the result on this?
www.julienslive.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/235/lot/96360/?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F235%2F

[Cluster Wall]

Barnebys has a free realized price database that is very helpful.

www.barnebys.com/auctions/?o=0&qsp=a&a%5B%5D=198&q=&a%5B%5D=198&a%5B%5D=198 is a link to the Julien's catalog

www.barnebys.com/realizedprices/banksy.html?minprice=0&maxprice=189000000&o=0&tc=0&r1%5B%5D=0&a%5B%5D=0 is a list of realized prices of Banksy works that have sold

Sorry, the hyper links weren't working so I just included the full links.

[Dive Jedi]

Nov 3, 2017 13:59:11 GMT 1 Cluster Wall said:

Barnebys has a free realized price database that is very helpful.

HERE is a link to the Julien's catalog

HERE is a list of realized prices of Banksy works that have sold

Your link links to this post.

[Cluster Wall]

For some reason the hyper links didn't work so I just added them.

[soam24]

Nov 2, 2017 21:55:57 GMT 1 soam24 said:

Can someone please tell me the result on this?
www.julienslive.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/235/lot/96360/?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F235%2F

Still looking for the results here if someone can help please.

[artfulinvestor]

I use Artnet as well and it is expensive at 10 searches per month plus additional fees if you go over. That being said, one search encompasses the last 100 auction results for the artist... If you search an additional 100 results (last 200) that counts as 2 searches out of 10 for the month. Just something to be aware of.

[lee3]

Nov 3, 2017 22:33:01 GMT 1 artfulinvestor said:

I use Artnet as well and it is expensive at 10 searches per month plus additional fees if you go over. That being said, one search encompasses the last 100 auction results for the artist... If you search an additional 100 results (last 200) that counts as 2 searches out of 10 for the month. Just something to be aware of.

You can pay more for about 30 searches a month which is the plan I utilize or still more for unlimited searches.  Pricey for sure, but the information learned has been worth every penny from my experience. I've also gotten into the habit of downloading most of my searches in pdf form for future reference plus I save many of the searches in their cloud database.  It's fascinating to go back and looks at searches from 10+ years ago as most of those are not in that first 100 you alluded to above anymore.  It's a wonderful resource. 

[hazydavy]

Either free or with subscription?

[Pattycakes]

Artnet is by far the best, but it's not cheap I warn you

[Gussius]

Just checked my Arsty bid history from last year. Missed out on Bomb Hugger & Versaille - given the price they went for, i may have been £50K better off if I had bigger balls. (NB: Aware that the prices could have kept going up if i stayed in.)

[mrizzle]

Still...Linea was a nice pick up at that price.

[artzhole]

[Charlie Bronson]

Apr 1, 2021 15:19:00 GMT 1 Gussius said:

Just checked my Arsty bid history from last year. Missed out on Bomb Hugger & Versaille - given the price they went for, i may have been £50K better off if I had bigger balls. (NB: Aware that the prices could have kept going up if i stayed in.)

Hindsight bud. If I do a Banksy search in my email I’m depressed for a day. Dating back to when I first became a fan in 2006, right around the time of his Barely Legal show, I find old emails of me passing up signed prints for 2-4K, unsigned for 1500....signed GWRB for 40k. The best is a B canvas I passed up for 120k, that’s likely a few million now🤦🏻‍♂️

[Deleted]

Not that many regrets, except for not buying a Banksy Flags for £4k two years ago because I thought I'd have a think about it and then maybe buy in a couple of months (by which time it was nearer £20k).

Oh and a massive Sebas Velasco original that I forgot to bid on and sold for about £700. I'm still annoyed about that. 

Got a lot of old emails about watched Banksy items that I thought were too expensive to commit to.

[Gussius]

Apr 1, 2021 23:22:31 GMT 1 artzhole said:

Good point sir. I should have introduced a more positive topic given the long weekend and lockdown opening up. One love!

[Lord Lucas Roham]

Sold many a print when I was a poor student for 2k. Kicking myself for selling a Nola Grey for 3k. Probably worth 150k now.

I once sold a Stop and Search print to someone (for 2.5k) who, on arrival claimed it was creased. I had videod myself rolling it and packaging it so it clearly wasn't me. Never found put what had happened tbh. After I sent them the video he didn't get back to me. I suspect his wife opened it and rolled it up side to side against the grain.

[GMA]

Just think, there's probably things you're passing on now and in years to come you may regret 😆

[dotdot]

A well trodden conversation.. who what when... etc.

i remember seeing around 10 banksy prints flying by one evening on ebay - a collection sold.(same id)
circa perhaps end of 07 (certainly someone thought clearly at the time.. yeah time to get out take the money now).

not sure if that person still has the same view.

..and yeah i was pipped at the post on several of said prints.

hey ho...

[Sixty Bells]

I sold a mini canvas in 2008 for £15k. I thought the buyer was mad.

[Deleted]

Its not a negative thread, s**t happens because none of us are mediums.

I sold 400 bitcoins for 800$ a piece end of 2015, thought I was a genius since had bought them at 23$ each and made 40 times my money

I'd be 24M$ richer now