Posted June 9, 2003

Artprice.com, a major international art auction price database and publisher of art auction price results, now offers a $99 annual subscription to its online art databases. The plan, called $99 BASICS, includes 360 days of unlimited access for a single user to the following databases:

* 3.5 million auction records for works of art by 306,000 artists sold at international auctions from 1987 to the present.

* The data bank of upcoming auctions from 2,900 auction houses including the search-by-artist function.

* All artist biographies in the Artistbiography database.

For a limited time, $99 BASICS subscribers receive free summer access through August 31, 2003-- sign up now and your 360-day subscription does not officially begin until September 1, 2003. As an additional bonus, Artprice will include unlimited access to the 5,000-artist "price level/index" database and 36,000-artist signature, monogram, and symbol database through July 31, 2003.

It's like buying the kitchen knives and getting the six matching steak knives free!!

The 5,000-artist "price level/index" database and 36,000-artist signature, monogram, and symbol database are normally available only to $199 PurePlay subscribers, and as part of other more expensive subcription plans. Currently, Artprice is offering new PurePlay subscribers free access to all of the above databases through August 31, 2003, and will begin the 360-day subscription on September 1, 2003.