ART MARKET RESEARCH
Benchmark the value of your artwork or collection.
When a picture has to be valued — for probate, tax, insurance or a family settlement — we give you the numbers the market supports.
THE LONG VIEW
Making art value legible.
AMR’s Create an Index app turns fifty years of auction history into individual artist indices. Choose from 1000+ artists, compare with other artists or market sectors, track performance or carry a value.
Compare up to 3 U2D markets, indexed to 1000 at the same date
Fernando Botero, paintings & works on paper. The C80 index reads what sold; the trend reads the durable trajectory beneath it.
THE RECORD, PUT TO WORK
Reading the auction room since 1978.
AMR has published art-market indices continuously since 1978 — openly, with the method shown from the raw auction results up to the chart. Publishing the indices is the point. Anyone can keep a method hidden and sell the conclusions. We’ve done the opposite for half a century, and remain the only service to do so.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
We never see the work —
so you never have to show it.
Published monthly, our artist indices measure what the market will support for fair market value. They provide a base of value when a number is being challenged and earn their keep most where named comparables are thin or absent. AMR can’t examine, authenticate, or trace the provenance of a work but give you the clearest possible read of the market to work from.
THE RECORD, SINCE 1978
One simple record, kept the same for nearly fifty years.
1978 — PRESENT
AMR’s approach to quantifying an artist’s sales over time is, by design, a simple one. Our datasets are price only — what each work actually made, with nothing layered on top. Price only, shown plainly — the market texture that hedonic models strip out and repeat-sales models can’t see for want of pairs.
We also set aside the long tail — the vast number of works that sell at local and regional salerooms, often for a few hundred pounds, too slight to read as a market. AMR concentrates on the established names — living artists and estates alike — whose work trades in enough depth, and at enough value, to track. Where an artist comes to auction in sufficient quantity, AMR will index them.
WHO READS AMR
The way the outside world reads the art market.
The art market is opaque by habit. For almost fifty years, the people who need to understand it from the outside — the financial press and wire services, property and wealth analysts, private equity and family offices — have read it through AMR.
WEALTH & ADVISORY Knight Frank — The Wealth Report · Credit Suisse Global Wealth Reports
PRESS & WIRES Financial Times · The Wall Street Journal · The Economist · The Telegraph · The Times · The Art Newspaper
CITED IN academic and institutional research on the art market
PRESS & RESEARCH
Writing about the art market, or building it into your own analysis? We provide data, charts and commentary on the record.