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Market
The auction record, read for you: every lot with its comparables and the evidence behind them, an artist's market sale by sale, and a note you can hand a client.
£39 a month, tax included. One subscription, billed monthly.
- Before a saleIs the estimate in line with the artist's recent sales and with the house's own record? The lot opens on its record, beside the past sales that compare, and those set aside — each with the reason.
- After a saleWhat did the lot make against its comparables, and against the earlier sales of the same image?
- For a clientA dossier keeps your facts and your hypothesis apart, and prints as a note a client can read, every source with its date.
Market is built for antique dealers and dealers, galleries, art advisers, collection managers and collectors who buy with a professional logic — and for the auction specialists and experts who work alongside them.
Fine art first, with paintings and drawings at its heart. Prints, sculpture, photography and the other categories the houses sell are shown as they are recorded, and every figure says what it covers.
I
The object, examined
From a lot
to a defensible case.
Open a lot and you see it as the house catalogued it — attribution as stated, provenance, exhibitions and literature when the catalogue gives them — with its earlier appearances at auction and its estimate. Every line says where it comes from and when it was read, and whether it is recorded, worked out by Artmetria, or simply missing. Nothing is called verified, because nothing has been.
Beside it, the comparables: past sales chosen for a reason you can read, and the ones set aside, with why. Where enough of them exist, a price range drawn only from those sales — never an appraisal; where they do not, Market says “insufficient evidence”. Before a sale, you see whether the estimate sits with the artist's recent results and the house's own record; after, the earlier sales of the same image.
II
The market, read
An artist's market,
sale by sale.
An artist opens on their sales: the typical price and its usual spread, year by year, the record, and where they sell — painting apart from works on paper and prints, because they are not the same market. Every figure says how many sales it rests on, and a figure the record cannot support is left out, and said to be.
Around it: the week's results across the houses; each house against its own estimates; the sales ahead; and a search for any sale, house, artist or lot. Prices are converted into the currency you work in — pounds, euros, dollars or francs — at each sale's rate, with the hammer price kept in its own currency beside them.
III
A question opens
A dossier, kept open.
A dossier holds a line of enquiry — on a lot or on an artist: your question, what you find, your facts and your hypothesis kept apart — so a question you opened last month is exactly as you left it when you come back to it. For an artist, its journal keeps the recorded catalogue activity since you opened it.
- 01Dossier — a working file: open a line of enquiry, on a lot or on an artist
- 02Attach what you find to it
- 03Return later
- 04Continue, with nothing lost
IV
You come back
What you follow.
Follow an artist, a lot or a house, and Market keeps it for you: the sales ahead that concern them, a result once it is recorded, and an alert — a Signal — in Market and by email, when a followed artist comes up for sale or a followed lot is sold. Your Portfolio keeps the works you hold, what you paid for them, and where the recorded market stands for each. And when you saw a work elsewhere — a fair, a gallery — describe it, and “A work you saw” shows what Market knows about that artist and that kind of work.
Alerts are bounded to what you follow. It is not a news feed, a watch over the whole market, or an AI briefing — just your own Market data, and what changed in it.
V
What makes it readable
Every figure
traced to its sale.
Underneath, works, artists, sales and catalogues are linked, so that a comparison or a Signal can always be traced back to the sales it rests on. The Index is Market's infrastructure, not a separate product.
VI
What you take away
The work has to leave the screen.
A position that cannot be handed to a client, a committee or a colleague is not finished. Market's output is meant to be read on paper as it is on screen, and to carry its own sources with it — where each figure came from, and when it was retrieved.
A dossier prints as a note for a client — or saves as a PDF from your browser — with every source and the date it was read. What you recorded stays yours, even if your subscription ends.
Technology and responsibility
The record, examined.
Every result keeps its sources, its dates and the relationships behind it, so a comparison can always be traced back to what it rests on. From search to case, Market calls no generative model: what it shows is the record.
How Artmetria works →Market does not
- — authenticate a work
- — establish a certain value
- — replace expertise
- — guarantee attribution
Begin
Subscribe to Market.
£39 a month, tax included, one subscription with no tier held back, billed monthly. A free account sees none of Market, not a thinner version.
Market is not an upgrade, and Eye is not a lite version — they solve different problems.