""As with any catalogue raisonné, this work grapples with the unbridgeable distance between the aspiration to total exhaustiveness and the practical limitations that make this goal nearly impossible to achieve.""
""Close to 15 paintings, at least, are known to exist that could have been included but, for various reasons, were not.""
""If a work is not included, it does not necessarily mean I think it is a fake. Nor is my sole opinion the ultimate arbiter.""
Marc Restellini's catalogue raisonné of Amedeo Modigliani's oil paintings has been published after nearly 30 years of work. The six-volume set, priced at £2,000, includes 100 newly authenticated works, with half located in museums. The catalogue employs a forensic methodology, utilizing scientific analysis and archival evidence. Some paintings were excluded due to lack of definitive evidence or inability to locate them. Restellini emphasizes that exclusion does not imply a work is a fake, and he collaborates with a team in this endeavor.
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