Released on: November 20, 2007, 8:29 am

Press Release Author: Artvalue.com

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: Artvalue.com provides for free information on the art market,
from fine art to classic cars.

Press Release Body: Artvalue.com together with the ADAGP (collective administration
organization for the rights of authors in the visual arts) provides free and without
restrictions images and auction results on more than 130.000 artists, which have
been published or collected worldwide since 1987 from both Guide Mayer and Artvalue.
The site enables you to consult auction results and also to obtain art valuations
from this wealth of data. No other source provides all this information at any cost
(it is all free at Artvalue.com). Guide Mayer was an indispensable art reference
tool that started in 1962, which referenced leading auction results, that were
published on paintings, sculptures, drawings, watercolors, stamps and photographs,
which has now finished its two year migration to online auction results and much
more on artvalue.com.

Seeming elitist or reserved to a well-off clientele, the interest in the art market
has been on a steady rise with the recent string of record high auctions.
Artvalue.com contains the types of art referenced from Guide Mayer and others with
collectible and luxury objects including unique designs, jewelry, furniture,
silverware, and collectable cars as examples. Artists run the gamut from up and
coming to world renowned; pricing ranges from affordable where anyone can afford to
masters which would be of the greatest interest to serious collectors, museums and
other institutions. The free Artvaluation service on the site a tool, allows you to
estimate regularly at no-charge the value of an object, thanks to a connection with
similar objects or similar works: in accordance with the dates, the subject, the
technique or the format and taken from the database of the website.

The website is also a device for auction houses within the arts market. It started
from the Guide Mayer database of 500,000 auction results. In addition to the
consultation of the database, the auction houses can utilize a no-charge editorial
back office of the website: this allows them to download their catalogues in a
user-friendly Windows PC environment including upcoming auctions, and to diffuse to
a strong audience the access to the calendar, whose access is completely free for
visitors. Artvalue even provide telephone support when auction houses are ready to
begin and allows them to send artvalue.com pictures and the database, which can be
adapted with small formatting through a secure FTP. Downloadable on as many places
as possible, the auction houses have the control over this site, which belongs to
them.

Other services are also being developed. No-charge ad classifieds are scheduled to
be launched in September and there also will soon be an Artvalue Gallery on the
website, containing limited edition lithographs by Dali, Matisse, Magritte, and
Braque.

As the Guide was an essential tool of work for both professionals and amateurs within
the arts world, Artvalue.com commits itself to providing high quality information,
that gave Guide Mayer its outstanding reputation, and made it an indispensable
reference tool on the art market. Artvalue.com was the first website to offer all
its data at no-charge without restriction. This can be considered a huge victory
for the art market as well as the artists, auction houses, galleries, expert
specialists, museums, amateurs and collectors and it provides a great opportunity
for the public to discover, in all transparency and without cost, the extraordinary
diversity of the art market.

Web Site: http://www.artvalue.com

Contact Details: For further information, contact Artvalue.com SA, 6, place de
Nancy, L-2212 Luxembourg,
Phone: TBD, Fax: 0033143796452, E-Mail: retour@artvalue.com, Url:
www.artvalue.com