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Artnet/Artprice Auction Hammer vs Estimate

hammer price vs low/high pre-sale estimate at Christie's/Sotheby's evening sales, % lots sold above high estimate

Feed detail
Measures
hammer price vs low/high pre-sale estimate at Christie's/Sotheby's evening sales, % lots sold above high estimate
Source
christies.com and sothebys.com public results pages
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
the spread of hammer-over-estimate is a direct read on ultra-high-net-worth liquidity and risk appetite, leading broader luxury spend
Maps to
art market, UHNW sentiment, luxury conglomerate demand (LVMH, Kering, Richemont)
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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