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The focus on output means that, at almost 2½ hours, “The Sparks Brothers” occasionally feels like an overlong, hyperkinetic catalogue raisonne; it would have benefited from a few darlings being whacked.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2021
Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The show falls between two more formal Hopper events: the recent publication, at long last, of Hopper's catalogue raisonne, and a definitive biography, due in the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compare with this catalogue raisonne of trees the ampler list given by Spenser in "The Faerie Queen," book i. canto i.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
In his opinion, the exercise of the reasoning powers is absolutely sinful—l'homme qui raisonne est l'homme qui péche.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 by Chambers, William
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