Research Guides: MUX300: Museums Concentration: Provenance & Cultural Heritage

Getting Started

Provenance Guide, IFAR
International Foundation for Art Research has assembled a Provenance guide that links out to various organizations and archives for provenance research.

Artprice
Fine arts auction prices & indices, with detailed auction sales results.

Christie's auction results
Covers sale prices from 1998-present.
Sotheby's auction results
Getty Research Portal
The Getty Research Portal has an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions, including auction catalogues.
Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Sales Catalogues
Browse through a selection of 23,000+ sales catalogues from the 17th century to 1945, many of which are annotated. Search for sales catalogues by entering a keyword or by city, country, and/or date.

Marr, Thomas E."Classical sculpture gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Photograph. [1902]. Digital Commonwealth, (accessed January 27, 2025).