catalogue raisonné

American  

[kat-l-awg rez-uh-ney, -og, ka-ta-lawg re-zaw-ney] / ˈkæt lˌɔg ˌrɛz əˈneɪ, -ˌɒg, ka ta lɔg rɛ zɔˈneɪ /

noun

• catalogues raisonnés
  plural

1. a catalog, as of paintings or books, with notes or commentary on the items listed; a classified, descriptive catalog.

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catalogue raisonné British  

/ katalɔɡ rɛzɔne /

noun

1. a descriptive catalogue, esp one covering works of art in an exhibition or collection

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• catalogues raisonnés
  plural

Etymology

Origin of catalogue raisonné

1775–85; < French: literally, reasoned catalog

Example Sentences

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catalogue raisonné

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

The museum also will publish a six-volume catalogue raisonné, or comprehensive edition, of more than 800 of Mr. Johns’s 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

When they were exhibited, after Mathews' death, at the Pantheon in Oxford Street, Lamb's remarks were appended to the catalogue raisonné.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb