“It is queer,” Edward Lear once wrote to a friend, “that I am the man as is making some three or four thousand people laugh in England all at one time. . . .” But to staid and sensible Victorians, who ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Edward Lear’s total sales are going up, and if so, ...