Detail of: Georges Braque, Fruit Dish, Bottle and Glass, 1912. Oil and sand on canvas (60 x 73 cm).
Centre Pompidou. Source: Frans Vandewalle, Flickr (edited). Licence.
Key auction house departments include:
Modernist works are sometimes also sold by other departments within the auction houses.
The database Gallica has digitised a selection of historic French sales catalogues.
At the SIA library, most important catalogues will be found in these two categories:
Artprice and artnet are both key for prices achieved at auction.
Selected older auction records are included in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.