From 1852 the Hôtel Drouot was the space where the French auctioneers (Commissaires-Priseurs) - who held a stately sanctioned monopoly - organized their auctions. By processing data from the art auction catalogue repertory by Frits Lugt and the extended version Art Sales Catalogues Online, it is possible to map the networks of art marketing at the early Hôtel Drouot

Lukas Fuchsgruber

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Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862The first decade of art auctions at the Hôtel DrouotNetwork visualization by Lukas Fuchsgruber on Graph CommonsMay 2017 (updated June 2017)Link to the interactive visualization (updated):https://graphcommons.com/graphs/427fc483-f4bd-401b-8c07-98265e8ecf02Description:From 1852 the Hôtel Drouot was the space where the French auctioneers (Commissaires-Priseurs) -who held a stately sanctioned monopoly - organized their auctions. By processing data from the artauction catalogue repertory by Frits Lugt and the extended version Art Sales Catalogues Online, it ispossible to map the networks of art marketing at the early Hôtel Drouot.  The used information is thenames of experts and auctioneers as they appear on the cover of the catalogues. In the first ten yearsafter the creation of the Hôtel Drouot around 100 auctioneers cooperated with around 100 experts inover 2000 auctions, sometimes in duos or trios of experts or auctioneers. Approximately 50% of allParisian auctioneers of that time, 30-40 per year, show up in the art auctions in these repertories. Onefifth of all auctions in the sample are organized by Charles Pillet (1824-1889), since 1855 the majorauctioneer  for  art  auctions.  The  visualization  also  provides  insight  into  the  less  dominant  actors.Different  approaches  to  this  market  become visible.  There  were  very active partnerships  betweenindividual auctioneers and experts. In the online version individual actors can be singled out for analysisby the viewer. Also the whole visualization can be clustered and filtered.Technical description:Network analysis of 2432 auction catalogues (tidied data of all Lugt/ASCO entries from 1852 to 1862without those that had empty fields for expert or auctioneer). Auctioneers marked red, experts blue.Lines represent  auctions held together.  Line weight  visualizes the number of  auctions.  Size of  thenames  visualizes  the  number  of  connections  (centrality).  The  occasional  teams  of  experts  orauctioneers are entered as one entity with a slash between them. 

Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862

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Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862

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