catalogue raisonné

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According to the gallerist Frank Maresca, the Indigenous Australian painter Paddy Bedford, who died in 2007, is the only outsider artist in the world to have a catalogue raisonné.

From New York Times • May 5, 2022

The show accompanies publication of a 640-page catalogue raisonné of the exceptional artist’s oil paintings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Since the sixties, Richter has been compiling his own catalogue raisonné, an official list of works usually assembled by scholars and curators.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

The museum also will publish a six-volume catalogue raisonné, or comprehensive edition, of more than 800 of Mr. Johns’s drawings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 22, 2018

And yet, as he sat there feeling all this, while he worked at the abominable catalogue raisonné, he decided further that he would not go away at all.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May