Dear wise art librarians,
I have a reference question this morning from a student in economics and math who is looking for art auction sales information as a downloadable data set. Here is his specific description of what he needs: “artist-level auction data (with
total turnover, top hammer prices, and lots sold) in a computationally manipulable form (like csv).” I will spend some time looking through our various auction sales resources to see if anything might meet this need, but I also wanted to ask here and see if
anyone had had a question similar to this and what you found? Many thanks!
Best,
Jessica
Jessica Evans Brady
Research & Collections Librarian
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
1805 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.1503