A research aggregate of public auction results — 247 houses, 177,000+ artists, from Beijing and Seoul to Mumbai, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Median values, market depth and hammer trends, benchmarked in native currency.
Recorded hammer activity by year and by medium across every house in the index.
Coverage by auction house — depth, artist breadth and realised totals in native currency.
| # | House / lots ▼ | Artists ▼ | Priced ▼ | Years | Realised (native) | Top media |
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Median & peak hammer prices per artist, in their primary trading currency. The core of ARTBenchmark.
| # | Artist | Country | Type | Lots | Priced | Market | Median | Peak hammer |
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Depth of the index by trading currency. Figures are shown in native currency and are never summed across markets.
How the benchmark is built — and the lines we hold on data and rights.
ARTBenchmark publishes factual results — artist, work, date, house and hammer price. We do not host auction-house photography or catalogue text; each result links back to its source house.
Every market trades in its own currency — RMB, KRW, GBP, HKD, INR, JPY and more. We never convert or sum across currencies; a benchmark is only meaningful within its own market.
Headline benchmarks use the median hammer price, which resists distortion from a handful of trophy lots — a truer read of where an artist's market actually sits.
The index is compiled from publicly reported auction outcomes. Buyer identities are never published; provenance is normalised, never reproduced verbatim.
Where global databases are thin, we are deep — Greater China, Korea, India, Japan and Southeast Asia — the fastest-moving and least-benchmarked corners of the market.
Benchmarks are statistical reference points for research and diligence. They are not formal valuations, offers, or investment advice.