This page contains information on electronic resources relevant to auctions and sales.
To identify Oxford holdings, use SOLO.
Use keyword searching (auction house or dealer name, word/s in catalogue title) plus year.
Example: christie paintings 1996
With the emergence of online auction house catalogues, the arrival of hard copy versions at the Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library has greatly diminished. For more recent years, therefore (from ca. 2009 on), researchers may prefer to consult online resources first (see below).
Art Dealers Online
General Auction Records Databases
Restricted Access
Open Access
To find more books illustrating artists' signatures select in subject from the drop-down menu and type artists' marks or monograms in the search box.
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon [Multi-volume print equivalent of the AKL database]
Benezit Dictionary of Artists [Hard copy original of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists database available through Oxford Art Online] by Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques [Hard copy original of the Art Sales Catalogues 1600-1900 database] by Supplement to Lugt's Répertoire des catalogues de ventes, volume I, 1600-1825 by 