/sothebys/artists

POST /api/sothebys/artists

Price: 10 credits

Get a Sotheby's artist profile by id, slug or URL: name, aliases, life dates, biography, departments, portrait, museums holding the artist's work, associated art movements, related artists and FAQ.

How to use it

Fetch a Sotheby's artist profile by slug such as pablo-picasso or by an artist_ids value from sothebys/lots/search. List the artist's lots and realized prices with sothebys/artists/lots.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• artist string required — Sotheby's artist id, slug or artist page URL (examples: "https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/pablo-picasso", "pablo-picasso", "d7ab32c4-e262-4583-9e64-c8dab4b18445"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "SothebysArtist")
• id string nullable
• url string required
• alias string nullable
• name string nullable
• given_name string nullable
• family_name string nullable
• aliases array (default: [])
• birth_year integer nullable
• death_year integer nullable
• life_dates string nullable
• summary string nullable
• bio string nullable
• departments array (default: [])
• divisions array (default: [])
• image string nullable
• image_credit string nullable
• banner string nullable
• portrait string nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• museums array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SothebysArtistLink")
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • details string nullable
  • image string nullable
• art_movements array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SothebysArtistLink")
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • details string nullable
  • image string nullable
• related_artists array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SothebysArtistLink")
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • details string nullable
  • image string nullable
• faqs array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SothebysArtistFaq")
  • question string nullable
  • answer string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No Sotheby's artist page exists at this id, slug or URL. Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.