Art Auction Records

Art Auction Records: Sales, Price, and Provenance

The auction and sales sources listed below cover almost exclusively painting and sculpture.  Some prints, photographs and decorative works are included. For decorative arts sales, see the sections on the those mediums in Art Sources for the Identification & Valuation of Fine and Decorative Arts.
Located in Willis Library, 1st floor, Art Sales Collection (by stairwell)

Art Sales Index database
The best source for art auction records from 1972 to the present.  Includes auction records from the auction houses of Christies, Sotheby's and many others.  Unfortunately this database can only be accessed in the Willis Library.

Sotheby's Art at Auction (formerly The Ivory Hammer: the year at Sotheby's 1962-1966 and Art at Auction 1966-1986) N8640 .A71

Mayer's International Auction Records, N8640 .I51

Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (Graves), N8675 .G72

Art Sales Index (formerly Annual Art Sales Index-the paper version of the database listed above), N8670 .A654

Christie's Review of the Season (formerly Christie's Review of the Year), 1972- N8660 .C5A361

Economics of Taste, ND47 .RI5

International Auction Records, 1968- N8640 .I5

Leonard's Annual Price Index to Art Auctions, 1981- N8670 .L46

Gordon's Print Price Annual (Dallas & Fort Worth Public Libraries)
Leonard's Annual Price Index of Prints, Posters & Photographs (Dallas Public Library)

Mayer's International Auction Records,  N8640 .I51

World Collector's Annuary 1946- ND47 .W6