David Hockney has announced that work has begun on the David Hockney Catalogue Raisonné. It will be released in a series of online volumes. Work will start with Volume 1 devoted to painting, anticipated for release in 2026.
The catalogue will be overseen by an editorial and supervisory team comprised of David Hockney himself, his studio assistants and Trustees of the David Hockney Foundation Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima and Jonathan Wilkinson, and David Hockney Inc. staff, as well as researchers, scholars and authors familiar with the artist’s work. The catalogue will feature essays by artists and writers examining individual artworks with particular significance not only to David Hockney’s career but to the history of postwar art and beyond.
The design and execution of the Catalogue Raisonné will be focused on serving the needs of a wide range of students, collectors, curators, fellow artists, and scholars given access to this digital resource.
Shannan Kelly, Director of David Hockney Inc. said:
We have worked very hard over the last few years in expanding and upgrading our inventory and archival databases, adding staff and resources to enhance the preservation and management of physical as well as digital collections of work by David Hockney and all materials associated with his life and career. Our goal now is to begin the work – with the artist’s invaluable oversight, participation and input – creating a comprehensive catalogue that reflects the full range and diversity of David Hockney’s prolific output in a variety of forms and media.
Catalogue Raisonné details:
Approximately 35,000 artwork entries
Volume 1 devoted to painting
The first iteration of the catalogue will be entirely digital; the digital format will allow continued updating with the most current research tools and data
This is approximately a fifteen-to-twenty-year project
There will be a call for works in due course
David Hockney Inc is the artist’s US-based company supporting his personal artistic endeavours and caretaking the collections and archives of the artist and his Foundation.
