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The WPI Sales Catalogues Database: A Valuable Resource for Art Historical Research

Sales catalogues are crucial primary sources that document the public sales of works of art. Users of the WPI Sales Catalogues Database can search through the vast holdings by date, place of sale, or by keywords such as auction house, artist, and collector. As these documents have been processed using OCR (Optical Character Recognition), each sales catalogue is entirely searchable.

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The Henry Certigny Papers: a peek into the work and life of an art expert

I began working on the Henry Certigny Papers in April 2019 to prepare the collection for digitization. These archives, which document the life and work of the Belgian poet, writer, and art historian best known for his research on French artist Henri “Le Douanier” Rousseau, consisted of eighty archival boxes of stacked papers with almost

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