SCIPIO (SCIPIO)
Art and rare book sales/auction catalogs
Why select this database?
- Only online list of auction catalog records in existence
- Provides information to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as many private sales
- Valuable source of information on art objects, rare books, history of collecting and comtemporary and historical market needs
- Catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held
- Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works
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| Sources | SCIPIO is a joint project of 25 different fine arts organizations, combining their art catalog collections | ||||||||||||
| Number of records | Over 300,000 | ||||||||||||
| Dates covered | Catalogs from the late sixteenth century to schedules auctions not yet held | ||||||||||||
| Updated | Daily | ||||||||||||
| Producer information | OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Other databases by this producer: | ||||||||||||
| Copyright | Copyright © 1978- <!--ATTN T-SYSTEMS: Sprinkle, asset ID 28885-->2012<!-- // T-SYSTEMS--> OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. | ||||||||||||
Indexes and examples in SCIPIO
| Search indexes | Examples |
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| Keyword | european paintings |
| Accession number | 37993343 (OCLC number) |
| Auction house | christie's, manson and woods |
| Auctioneer & auction house | john sollo |
| Citation | lugt |
| Date of sale | 01312007 (searching single date January 31, 2007, MMDDYYYY) 01312007-02142007 (searching dates from January 31 to February 14, 2007, MMDDYYYY) 012007-022007 (searching dates in January and February 2007, MMYYYY) 2006-2007 (searching any day in either year, YYYY) |
| Notes | translation |
| Place of publication | new york |
| Place of sale | paris |
| Publisher | christie's |
| Sale code | LO1703 LEVER |
| Seller/subject | faye dunaway |
| Standard number | LO1703 LEVER |
| Subject | warhola collection |
| Title | post-war and contemporary art |