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catalogue raisonné

[kat-l-awg rez-uh-ney, -og, ka-ta-lawg re-zaw-ney] / ˈkæt lˌɔg ˌrɛz əˈneɪ, -ˌɒg, ka ta lɔg rɛ zɔˈneɪ /
NOUN
detailed catalog of an artist's work
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In the immediate wake of Williams’ death, no glossy books of his work were published, much less a catalogue raisonné.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2021

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

Joseph Newland, the director of publishing at the Menil, says he felt some trepidation about working with such an exacting printmaker on the catalogue raisonné of his drawings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 22, 2018

Always overproductive, Picasso supercharged his career in 1932, the year his first retrospective exhibition took place and when the first volume of Christian Zervos’s mammoth catalogue raisonné was published.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2018

He must and would finish that catalogue raisonné by the twenty-seventh.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May



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