The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum is overseeing the creation of a Catalogue Raisonné of Isamu Noguchi’s work. The project will authoritatively document Noguchi's complete oeuvre, and will update and considerably expand the 1980 catalogue by Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick. In an effort to represent Noguchi’s life and work as fully and accurately as possible, the Catalogue will include not only discrete artworks, sculptures, and traditional aesthetic objects, but also architectural spaces, works for the theater, manufactured designs, and unrealized concepts. Simultaneously, the catalogue will avoid specialization and categorization by presenting the artist’s oeuvre in a chronological, cross-referenced, and interactive format. The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné will be an online database, launched in phases, and accessible free of charge from The Noguchi Museum’s website. Catalogue entries will include detailed histories of each work's ownership, exhibitions in which the work was shown, and the literature in which it has been cited or illustrated. The Catalogue Raisonné will be indispensable to scholars, collectors, and dealers of Noguchi's work.

FOR OWNERS

Owners and past owners of works by Noguchi who would like to submit works for inclusion in the Catalogue Raisonné are kindly asked to complete the Owner’s Form, a copy of which can be downloaded by clicking the link below. Please send the form and a reference photograph via email, fax, or mail to our offices. Owners may also contact us with any questions: The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné Project The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum 32-37 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, NY 11106 tel: 718.204.7088, ex. 219 fax: 718. 278.2348 catalogue@noguchi.org

Click here to download the Owner Form (PDF, 271 KB)