This manuscript revisits a recent bibliometric synthesis of art market scholarship by converting its verified descriptive findings into a more analytically integrated narrative and by articulating a bounded framework for prospective inquiry. Building on a Web of Science Core Collection dataset of 912 records spanning 1 January 1972 to 16 January 2022, the source study shows that art market research has developed from an early concentration on hedonic price construction toward a broader agenda encompassing artist brand management, electronic art platforms, anti-money-laundering (AML) supervision, and market efficiency. In the present extension, those empirically established findings are reorganized into a coherent scholarly account of the field’s evolution, institutional and geographical structure, intellectual landmarks, and principal thematic clusters. The manuscript preserves the original study’s verified evidence, clarifies the inferential boundaries of each claim, and separates source-supported findings from forward-looking interpretation. It further proposes a feasible next-stage methodological framework—grounded in dynamic topic monitoring, burst analysis, and network centrality—that future researchers may apply to the same bibliographic domain to track frontier formation prospectively and evaluate emerging topics with explicit validation criteria. The result is a source-faithful synthesis that clarifies the field’s development and offers a testable agenda for subsequent work in art market studies, cultural economics, and adjacent management scholarship.