Exclusively online catalogues raisonnés are, in my opinion, huge
lawsuits waiting to happen.
For prints, maybe; for drawings or paintings, forget it.
Unlike bibliographies, catalogues raisonnés are not merely convenient
repositories of information: including a work in a catalogue raisonné
unequivocally declares it to be authentic.
I realize that many works featured in traditional (i.e., printed)
catalogues raisonnés have, over the years, been shown to be fakes--people
will always be human, after all. And in those cases the reputation of the
compiler (and thus of his/her scholarship) is diminished. So there is a
clear incentive to get it right the first time.
What do you think will happen when a rich Wall Streeter buys a $5
million painting, relying on a catalogue raisonné entry on the Podunk
University website--and then three years later finds that the entry has been
deleted?
I don't know the answer to this question, but I sure wouldn't want to be
one of Podunk U.'s lawyers.
Best
Bill Cole
Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery
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>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Amy E Lucker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Hi folks,
>>> we here at NYU are starting to think about how to deal with e-only
>>> catalogues
>>> raisonnes. Has anyone out there come up with a plan for how to collect,
>>> catalog, and disseminate these resources? If so, please share.
>>>
>>> thanks so much,
>>> Amy
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