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4. Price Guides

DAVENPORT'S ART REFERENCE & PRICE GUIDE

[MAZ+ 90-1037]
Auction Houses: International
Dates Covered: 1986 - 1990

Contents:

• Painting
• Watercolors
• Drawings
• Engravings
• Lithographs
• Sculptures

Scope: European and American market. Primarily 19th and 20th centuries.
Notes: Contains over 90,000 artists. Artists included must have sold at an auction that produces a catalog and publishes in a major reference book. Each artist contains: birth and death dates, where they lived, subject matters, average prices. Good for finding range of prices for artists works.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN ART AUCTION PRICES by Michele Berard

[MAZ+ 72-590]
Auction Houses: International
Dates Covered: 1961 - 1969.

Contents

• Drawings
• Watercolors
• Paintings
• Goauches
• Tempera
• Pastels

Scope: Painters since the impressionists.
Notes: Gives title, date, dimensions, auction house and date, price. In addition gives a little chronological summary of artist's career. Covers only artists who had at least one work auctioned for $2,000 for more.

JACOBSEN'S PAINTING PRICE GUIDE by Anita Jacobsen

[MAZ 78-533]
Auction Houses: International
Dates Covered: 1967 to Present

Contents:

• Paintings
• Sculpture
• Bronzes
• Graphic Arts

Scope: Covers all periods for American and European artists; strongest in 19th and 20th century. Selected auction and art galleries.

OFFICIAL GUIDE TO FINE ART

[*R-ART 88-1911]
Auction Houses: International
Coverage: 1980 - 1985

Contents:

• Paintings
• Drawings
• Sculpture

Notes: Serves to give an index of an artist's popularity as it offers a compilation of the high and low price range of an artist's works. Leonard's is the parent volume of this guide.

SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL PRICE GUIDE

[MAZ 88-4040]
Auction Houses: International
Dates Covered: 1984 to Present

Contents:

• Furniture
• Ceramics
• Silver
• Clocks & Watches
• Jewellery
• Lacquer
• Toys & Dolls
• Decorative Arts
• Applied Arts
• Arms & Armor

Scope: Prices for objects sold at Sotheby's around the world. 1989-1990 edition has over 6,000 of the 100,000 objects sold. Gives date of sale, price, description and all objects are illustrated, some in color. Excellent resource for decorative arts.

Written by Lee Robinson, with markup assistance from Caroline Gifford
June, 1996