Schwartz City Books announces a monumental seven-volume Brett Whiteley catalogue raisonné
(Artdaily.org)

Schwartz City Books has announced a monumental seven-volume catalogue ​raisonné chronicling a lifetime of work by Brett Whiteley will be released on 9 December 2019.​ Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 1955–1992 has been compiled by art historian ​Kathie Sutherland over seven years and comprises a seven-volume collection that covers the artist’s lifetime of work in exhaustive detail. Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 1955–1992 is an unprecedented publishing event that confirms Whiteley’s enduring significance as a visionary force of Australian art. Weighing 21 kilograms and totalling 2400 pages, the set of seven cloth-bound books presented in a deluxe, elegantly finished slipcase features more than 4600 artworks, including hundreds of never-before-published works. Volumes I, III and IV hold paintings and drawings from the 1950s