Contact Us: ArtValue.ca

We maintain an artist index, auction art prices, and image collections for artwork sold at auction in Canada from 2001 till today.
We only index records from the major art auction houses listed on this page.

We generate an Artist Value, based on the highest sale records in our database.

We make available for free the highest price for each artist from the index and provide the list of records sorted from highest to lowest sale, but the estimates and sale price are only available for a paid subscription, which helps us with the maintenance costs.

For visitors using a desktop computer, we provide a Chrome browser extension that comes in handy when browsing other art websites.

We do not buy, sell, consign, or hold art auction events.

We are not art specialists and cannot advise on the value of an artwork you own.

We do not provide estimates, or any help with selling or buying art pieces.

Our website operation is mostly automated. If you have any concerns about the content displayed on ArtValue.ca - you can send us a message using the form below.

If you know the artist and find their name on our website, look for the value we estimated.
If the value is over $1,000, you should contact the auction house listed on this page or find an art gallery in your neighbourhood.
If you cannot identify the artist or cannot find their name listed on any website with art price records,

• Ask your friends or family if they are interested in getting it.
• Try selling on eBay.
• Post an ad on Kijiji.

If you have a collection you want to sell, you could try to organise a Maxsold downsizing auction.

We do not buy, sell, consign, or hold art auction events. We are not art specialists and cannot advise on the value of an artwork.

For contemporary artists, you can check out art galleries in your city or browse online.
For resale art, you can check:

• Auction house events
• Maxsold auctions
• eBay
• Kijiji

Before deciding to buy an artwork you found online, you should make sure you are buying an original piece and do your research about the price. Please read our How to Valuate Art page.
You should not pay more than a few hundred dollars for an item you found online and cannot examine it before picking it up, or being delivered to you.
High-value resale art items are usually sold through auction events where potential buyers can check them out and do their research before bidding.

We do not buy, sell, consign, or hold art auction events. We are not art specialists and cannot advise on the value of an artwork.

You can check the value page for the estimate we are calculating based on the sale records in our database.
We also display the price for the best sale and, for some artists, a sale record that gives biographic information.

To see the price for other artworks you are interested in, please create an account and buy a subscription for only $10.
The subscription is a one-time payment with no other monthly or yearly charges.

All information available on our website is collected from public sale records published by auction houses.
We do not represent any artists and do not have their contact information.
You can try to find their website or social media page on Twitter, Facebook,  or Instagram.

All information available on our website is collected from public sale records published by auction houses.
You can try to ask them directly, though this information is usually confidential.

Thank you for your interest.
We are a low-budget online operation, and we use our own time to look after these concerns.

Yes, we do.
Please use https://artvalue.ca/api/value/?q=artist_name to get the info we display on artist's value page.
If you know the artist iden, you will get as reponse only that artist. Please use https://artvalue.ca/api/value/?q=artist_iden.

Please use https://artvalue.ca/search/suggestions?q=artist_name&limit=count to get a list of artists matching the search term q.

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Thank you for your interest.
Currently, we do not provide this service.

We load public auction sale records only from leading Canadian Art auction houses after major auction events and at the end of the year.
The artist value we estimate is calculated from the top 5 - 10 sales records. For artists with many records, this value does not change dramatically during the year.

When we load public auction sale records from Art auction houses, we try to match the artist's name with the existing index.
Sometimes the name is quite different, and we prefer to add duplicate records because some visitors might know the artist by that name.