Posthumous trading patterns affecting artwork prices

Abstract This study aims to identify factors contributing to price fluctuations in artworks after an artist’s death. With access to information on seller characteristics from a historical dataset of all art auctions that took place in London between 1741 and 1913, we investigate how trading patterns...

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Published in:Oxford economic papers 2022-04, Vol.74 (2), p.453-472
Main Authors: De Silva, Dakshina G, Kosmopoulou, Georgia, Pownall, Rachel A J, Press, Robert
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