sales: London Paintings Auction Records
In mdlincoln/londonauctions: Data, analysis, and figures for Lincoln and Fox 2016

A cleaned database of paintings records derived from the Getty Provenance Index.

sales

A data frame with 12 variables:

cat_no: Character. Auction catalogue number
lot_no: Character. Lot number
auction_house: Character. The auction house associated with the sale record
date: POSIXct. The date of the lot sale. Where a specific lot sale date is specified, that date is used. Where only a range of dates is specified, the earliest date is used.
transaction_type: Character. The transaction type.
transaction_amt: Numeric. Transaciton amount.
year: Integer.
month: Integer. Month of the year.
week: Integer. Week of the year.
yday: Integer. Day of the year.
mday: Integer. Day of the month.
wday: Integer. Day of the week.
transaction: Character. Verbatim text of the transaction from the Getty catalogs.
artists: Character. Verbatim text of artist names from the Getty catalogs. Multiple names are delimited with a semicolon.
title: Character. Verbatim title of the artwork from the Getty catalogs.
sellers: Character. Verbatim text of seller names from the Getty catalogs. Multiple names are delimited with a semicolon.
buyers: Character. Verbatim text of buyer names from the Getty catalogs. Multiple names are delimited with a semicolon.