Tour Eiffel stairs sold for more than 250.000 US$ in Paris

Artvalue.com together with the ADAGP (collective administration organization for the rights of authors in the visual arts) provides free and without restrictions images and auction results on more than 130.000 artists, which have been published or collected worldwide since 1987 from both Guide Mayer and Artvalue. The site enables you to consult auction results and also to obtain art valuations from this wealth of data. No other source provides all this information at any cost (it is all free at Artvalue.com). Guide Mayer was an indispensable art reference tool that started in 1962, which referenced leading auction results, that were published on paintings, sculptures, drawings, watercolors, stamps and photographs, which has now finished its two year migration to online auction results and much more on artvalue.com.

Seeming elitist or reserved to a well-off clientele, the interest in the art market has been on a steady rise with the recent string of record high auctions. Artvalue.com contains the types of art referenced from Guide Mayer and others with collectible and luxury objects including unique designs, jewelry, furniture, silverware, and collectable cars as examples. Artists run the gamut from up and coming to world renowned; pricing ranges from affordable where anyone can afford to masters which would be of the greatest interest to serious collectors, museums and other institutions. The free Artvaluation service on the site a tool, allows you to estimate regularly at no-charge the value of an object, thanks to a connection with similar objects or similar works: in accordance with the dates, the subject, the technique or the format and taken from the database of the website.

The website is also a device for auction houses within the arts market. It started from the Guide Mayer database of 500,000 auction results. In addition to the consultation of the database, the auction houses can utilize a no-charge editorial back office of the website: this allows them to download their catalogues in a user-friendly Windows PC environment including upcoming auctions, and to diffuse to a strong audience the access to the calendar, whose access is completely free for visitors. Artvalue even provide telephone support when auction houses are ready to begin and allows them to send artvalue.com pictures and the database, which can be adapted with small formatting through a secure FTP. Downloadable on as many places as possible, the auction houses have the control over this site, which belongs to them.

Other services are also being developed. No-charge ad classifieds are scheduled to be launched in September and there also will soon be an Artvalue Gallery on the website, containing limited edition lithographs by Dali, Matisse, Magritte, and Braque.

As the Guide was an essential tool of work for both professionals and amateurs within
the arts world, Artvalue.com commits itself to providing high quality information, that gave Guide Mayer its outstanding reputation, and made it an indispensable reference tool on the art market. Artvalue.com was the first website to offer all its data at no-charge without restriction. This can be considered a huge victory for the art market as well as the artists, auction houses, galleries, expert specialists, museums, amateurs and collectors and it provides a great opportunity for the public to discover, in all transparency and without cost, the extraordinary diversity of the art market.