# Researching a painintings value/price

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**Created:** [April 25, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-a-painintings-value-price/579673 "2011-04-25T16:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-a-painintings-value-price/579673/1 "2011-04-25T16:22:17Z")

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Are there any useful free resources on the net for researching past auction prices of a painters work?

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-a-painintings-value-price/579673/2 "2011-04-25T22:18:28Z")

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I don’t know about free and on the net (too busy to check today) but there are a couple of auction catalog databases that if you at least have a uni library account you’d maybe have access to-- SCIPIO, and the Getty Provenance Index (I think the latter is probably accessible-- they’re generally cool about access)