* BENEZIT - DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS - PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, DRAUGHTSMEN, ENGRAVERS
Emmanuel Bénézit

Since 1911, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists has been the unrivaled, indispensable work of reference for art historians, dealers, collectors and students. Benezit provides both the amateur and the professional with important factual information about almost any painter, sculptor, engraver or draftsman of all countries and schools, from antiquity to the present day. From the 1920s to the present, a team of specialists has been working on it full-time, adding thousands of entries with each of its five editions.

Revised and Expanded
Not only is this new edition of Benezit in English, it is also heavily updated and greatly expanded. Since the publication of the last edition in 1999, a team of 150 editors, art historians and translators, has been working to complete the monumental 2006 edition. Older entries have been updated and expanded, and new entries have been added, bringing thousands of changes to this new edition.

Features include biographical entries on artists, descriptions of museums and galleries where the works of an artist can be found, graphics (including artist signatures, monograms and stamps of sale), auction records, and bibliographies of written works about the artist.

All these combine to make the 2006 DICTIONARY OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, DRAUGHTSMEN AND ENGRAVERS even more compelling and useful to a much wider audience than ever before.


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A Benezit Chronology

• 1911. The Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays is published in three volumes.
• 1920. The first edition of the dictionary under the Gründ imprimatur is compiled by a group of specialist writers from France and elsewhere, guided by Emmanuel Bénézit.
• 1948-1955. The Benezit Dictionary grows to eight volumes.
• 1976. A 10-volume edition of Benezit is published.
• 1999. Utilizing computer technology for the first time, the Benezit is published in a 14-volume edition.
• 2006. The first English-language edition of Benezit is published in 14 volumes.