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What do we do

A guide to understanding Arcadja's activities, the services offered and the benefits for its users.

For decades, Arcadja has been monitoring auction houses around the world on a daily basis, continuously discovering new auctions containing visual arts. Paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, calligraphy and other visual art works are selected, catalogued and presented in a standard format. Based on availability, estimates, starting prices and hammer prices are collected, as well as much other information.

The data collected allows Arcadja to offer many services to its subscribers.

Auction catalogues

Excluding everything that is not visual art, return in a standardized form the original catalogs of the auction houses, initially very different from each other in commercial, cultural and linguistic formats. Arcadja homogenizes the formats, offering its users all the information available in a single standardized format, localized in the language chosen by the user, consistent and professional, regardless of the auction house of origin.

Register of artists

The registry of Arcadja authors can be navigated via the powerful built-in search engine. When it is It is possible to identify the artist who created the lot (original, authenticated, attributed), Arcadja connects them, otherwise the work is attributed to a generic category or to the anonymous author. Furthermore, to facilitate research, an artist is also attributed works that are not his own but created by others, distinguishing them with specific attributions (school, follower, and so on).

Statistical data processing

The data catalogued by Arcadja is processed to communicate numerical and graphic evaluations to its users, useful for comparing auctions and authors.

Alert services

Arcadja promptly publishes new auction catalogues on its website. Subscribers can be notified of auction lots by authors of interest and auctions held in specific auction house locations of their choice.

Auction promotion

Upon request, Arcadja promotes the auctions of the applicants, highlighting them and making them accessible to any user, even if not registered or subscribed.


In this section Arcadja describes the activities which are sometimes requested of her but which she does not deal with.