Wassily

AI provenance research for artworks and auction records

Wassily helps researchers trace provenance by resolving artwork identity, finding prior auction appearances, extracting source text, and connecting ownership evidence to citations.

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What is AI Provenance Research?

Wassily helps researchers trace provenance by resolving artwork identity, finding prior auction appearances, extracting source text, and connecting ownership evidence to citations.

What does Wassily unlock beyond this public page?

Wassily unlocks conversational analysis, comparable selection, valuation reasoning, exports, saved research, and alerts for professional art-market workflows.

Ownership chains

Trace owners, locations, year ranges, acquisition context, and catalogue provenance mentions across source-backed auction appearances.

Deep research surfaces

Combine provenance with catalogue raisonne references, museum records, exhibition history, scholarly literature, and lot-section extraction.

Risk and gaps

Surface uncertainty, possible other appearances, and gaps in ownership history so the workflow does not over-claim.

Questions specialists ask Wassily

  • Find the best auction comparables for this work.
  • Explain which comps are outliers and why.
  • Compare sold and bought-in records for this artist.
  • Generate a valuation memo from cited auction records.
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