Corpus

We mentioned the "Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South" in passing a couple of weeks ago. This project, with entries by Perri Lee Roberts, was conceived by Bruce Cole and Andrew Ladis back in 1993 and has been in process ever since. We get several phone calls a year from wholesalers asking if the books are in stock yet, and we've had to say no every time. But the printer in Asia just sent this image to make sure its staff is assembling the three volumes correctly in the slipcase, and it's confident the books will be ready to start their journey across the ocean in early November. Three volumes, a smidge over 800 pages, and right around 400 paintings catalogued, with provenance, bibliography and notes on each of them will be for sale for $200 a set. This undertaking has been massive, and it is extremely exciting to see it nearing conclusion.