Help and presentation

This directory shows you a selection of the most active auction houses in the art market, as well as providing all the practical information you need to get in touch with them.

To help you make your first searches, here are a few examples of the search options available to you.

Geographical search

Select the country

We offer you a list of the countries in which we have registered auction houses specialising in art. By clicking on the name of a country, you get the list of the the cities and  the auction houses we selected in that country. By clicking on the name of an auction house you will access directly to its presentation file.

Multiple criteria search

Select the country and eventually the city

 If the list of cities and houses is long, you may access directly to the town of your choice via the pop up menu.

Select the speciality

A  pop up menu gives you the fields of activity of the houses. Choose the speciality you are interested in and click OK to get all those connected with the speciality selected.

Warning ! Most auction houses hold sales in several fields of art. So the same house may appear on several lists of answers based on specialities. Conversely, if you don’t change the "All specialities” field, you will be given all houses.

Direct search by name

If you know the name of the auction house, you can make direct use of the blank “name” field to access the information, without bringing the other search criteria into play.

You can enter the full or abbreviated name – in capital or small letters, with or without accents - or 3 letters from one of the key words in it.

Examples : Art Curial – Curial – art– Art – Etc.

If you have entered only the first 3 letters of a word, you will be given all the auction houses with names including that group of 3 letters.

You can make your search more specific at will by combining the various selection criteria.

Examples : Country + Speciality / Country + City + Speciality –/All countries + name or 3 letters from the title - etc.

NB - In our answers we will give you the titles and locations of events using the original spelling and accents as far as possible. But the search engine deals with accented letters on its own. You can omit cedillas and other accents.