Art Sales Research 

1. Duke "Classic" Library Catalog - always use the old ("Classic") version for better and more accurate searching

  Use your natural language to find ONE book that's relevant.  Then go into the record and click the subject headings assigned to that book to find more like it.

These are all library subject headings:

  Art -- Economic aspects.
  Art -- Europe -- Marketing.  
  Art -- Europe -- 16th century.  [or any century]
  Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 15th century.  [or any century]
  Art dealers --Belgium [or any country] --Ghent [or any city] --Correspondence 
  Painting -- Prices. 
  Art objects -- Prices. 

2. Worldcat - combined catalog of all libraries

  Use Worldcat to locate exhibition catalogs and books for interlibrary loan and archives of collections.  There's a "libraries with this item" link that shows NC libraries first.

The archival collection of auction catalogs for the Triangle is held at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Duke students have access to these, but the University requests that you call ahead to notify them which catalogs you will need as many are in storage.  Their list of catalogs is available at:

UNC Auction Catalog Collection Inventory

UNC Sloane Art Library - 962-2397