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The Wildenstein Plattner Institute Announces Inaugural Digital Release of The Romare Bearden Catalogue Raisonné Project

Marking a Milestone in Art Historical Scholarship:Bearden, 1964–1969 is the First Digital Catalogue Raisonné for aMajor 20th Century African American Artist The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) is proud to announce the inaugural release of the Romare Bearden Catalogue Raisonné Project, focusing on the artist’s unique works created between 1964 and 1969. This significant launch represents […]

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

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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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WPI Oral Histories: Preserving Artists’ Legacies through the Spoken Word

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The WPI Oral Histories Project was launched in 2020 to capture firsthand accounts of WPI-affiliated catalogue raisonné researchers and scholars.

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The WPI’s Digital Corpus: A New Model for Publishing Catalogues Raisonnés

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The WPI developed the concept of the digital corpus in order to reconcile our mission to publish catalogue raisonnés, which take many years to complete, with the desire to share our research as quickly as possible via our digital platform.

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