Heather Gendron
Art Librarian
hgendron@email.unc.edu
919-962-1061

Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.

This is just a sampling of the library's holdings. Search the library's catalog to locate more sources.

The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction House Scandal
Davis HF5477.G74 S6746 2004

Art Auctions: A Survey of Empirical Studies
Available as an e-book

Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam by John Michael Montias
Art N8605.N4 M66 2002
Also available as an e-book
Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social and religious affiliations, wealth, and aesthetic preferences.

Tales from the Art Crypt : The Painters, the Museums, the Curators, the Collectors, the Auctions, the Art
Art N7460 .F454 2000

The Economics of Taste
Art N8675 .R44 v.1-3
A detailed study of the fluctuations of taste in collecting of works of art based on prices paid from 1750-1970.

Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
Davis HF5477.G74 G675 1998
Traces the first two centuries of Sotheby's history.

From Manet to Manhattan: The Rise of the Modern Art Market by Peter Watson
Art N6447 .W3 1992
Watson entertainingly covers art scandals, big deals and changing fashions, profiling such dealers as Ambrose Vollard, Daniel Wildenstein and the notorious Joseph Duvenn as well as collectors such as Gertrude Stein, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Louisine Havemeyer.