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Oxford University Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Since 1911 the Benezit has been the unrivalled 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 draughtsman of all countries and schools from Antiquity to the present day. This essential working tool gives not only biographical data but also a general presentation of an artist s work as well as a selection of bibliographical references museum listings graphics (including artist signatures monograms and stamps of sale) and auction records. This first English edition (2006) is the largest edition ever - over 170 000 entries comprising over 20 000 pages in 14 volumes. Older entries have been updated and expanded over 3 000 entries have been completely rewritten and over 2 000 new entries have been added. All these combin