ARTMETRIA
Understanding it is another matter.
Buying or selling art professionally? Market →
More circulates, sells and resurfaces than anyone can absorb alone. Artmetria brings structure to looking at it, and to reading what happens to it in the market.
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The House
Two products about art. Looking at it and working with its market are two different acts, done by different people, for different reasons.
Eye is for anyone who looks at art — art lovers, the curious, students: discover a work each day, find out what a work in front of you is, read it closely, keep what you saw. Free.
Market is for the art trade — antique dealers, dealers, galleries, advisers, collection managers: auction lots, each with its comparables and evidence, and a sourced note for a client. £39 a month, tax included.
Both rest on the same discipline — Artmetria Intelligence: facts kept with their sources, and uncertainty kept in view.
Two ways of seeing
Eye helps you discover art worth your attention, understand what you're looking at, and keep what interests you. In a museum, photograph a work or its label to find out what it is; ask for a careful reading of it; keep it.
Free. Each month: 10 readings and 30 questions a month; identifying a work from a photograph is unlimited.
Before a sale, a lot with its comparables and the evidence behind them. After a sale, the result in the artist's market, year by year. For a client, a note that carries its sources.
For antique dealers, dealers, galleries, advisers and collection managers. £39 a month, tax included, billed monthly.
Evidence, not certainty.
Eye — the Reading Room
A reader's photograph of a painting in a private collection, read by Reading Room from the photograph alone — in the reading's own words, shortened, never rewritten.
Eye did not find this work among those it holds, so nothing here comes from a record. The reading rests on what your photo shows — palette, handling, composition — set against works of its kind. Its attributions are leads, not facts.
The visible cues are compatible with a 19th-century Orientalist landscape, likely oil on canvas, depicting a fortified settlement or military encampment in an arid region. The palette—ochre, dusty rose, pale blue-grey sky—and the handling of atmospheric haze suggest a European academic painter working in the Orientalist tradition, possibly mid-to-late 1800s.
Moderate confidence — Confidence in stylistic attribution is medium, not high; the work may be by a well-known Orientalist master or by a competent but lesser-known academic painter. Visual cues alone cannot distinguish.
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Inside Market
Inside Market, works, artists, sales and catalogues are linked, so any comparison or Signal can be traced back to the sales it rests on — never a single number standing in for judgement.
Explore MarketHow Artmetria works, and how it keeps what it knows apart from what it infers Methodology →
One house, two ways of seeing
Eye to develop. Market to decide. One intelligence beneath both.