Price Guide for Art

Whether you are an art dealer or art collector, one thing that you absolutely have to have by your side is a good price guide for art. It will inform you how much you should be spending on certain pieces as well as how much you can reasonably turn around and sell them for. There are a plethora of art price guides available, but wading through which are respected by those in the industry and which are not can be difficult. Use the following three suggestions as a guide when looking for the book you'll be carrying with you to art shows from now on.

Artnet focuses on the international art market and has business headquarters in Germany, France and the United States. The company's online website is home to the Artnet Price Database, which has almost four million auction sale results. These results were taken from 500 international auction houses from 1985 to today. Artnet is considered an invaluable resource for researching price trends as well as being a respected price guide.

PrintWorld Directory is an art price guide that is published annually. Each edition has database listings from 1500 to 1950 and is considered second to none on retail and auction values from this period. It contains information (including detailed biographies) on 350 different artists. Each volume of the PrintWorld Directory weighs in at over 650 pages. PrintWorld Directory can be purchased at www.printworlddirectory.com.

Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide is a comprehensive book on international artists. It provides not only prices but auction dates as well as biographies for close to 175,000 different artists. Davenport's is considered by experts as well as art dealers to be one of the most referenced art guides in print today. You can order Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide by calling 1-805-684-0109.